The chassis comes standard with three robust, hot swappable 400W power supplies to provide a level of redundancy unparalleled in the industry. In the event of a failure of one of the power supplies, an audible alarm is triggered and the LED's on the front of the enclosure give a clear visual status of which power supply has failed. Cooling has always been an issue in chassis design. Once again, there is no need to take the system down to remove a failed fan as the card cage fans are hot swappable and can be removed through the top cover without the use of tools. The placement of the fans has been carefully designed to assure maximum airflow.
Air is drawn through the front of the enclosure and exhausted out the rear of the system.
Fan rotation speeds, and internal chassis temperature are carefully monitored by the system and displayed on a LCD panel on the front of the enclosure. Eight of the drive bays have a locking drive bay door option. Finally, the Eclipse is truly designed with easy system integration and servicing in mind. The chassis provides a removable motherboard mount at the rear of the chassis for quick, easy access. It is scheduled to begin shipping by the end of January, 2001.