You might love it. Frankly, chances are better that you don't, but either way you likely recognize the "cheesegrater" design of the old Power Mac and later Mac Pro chassis. Visually imposing they might be, but Apple doesn't use a standard ATX layout in their towers - meaning that once your hardware is obsolete, those lovely, thick aluminum towers are destined to be shredded and remanufactured into Coors Lite cans.

Having found a trove of these cases at the dump, I set my sights on building a home server in such a case. The conversion is simple thanks to a conversion tray sold by Mountain Mods, which allows for the mounting of standard ATX motherboards and PCIe expansion cards. The power supply is mounted in a custom-fabricated stainless steel tray which, by means of a short extension, allows the original power plug to connect with the modern power supply. The tray also channels the hot exhaust air from the power supply out fo the case without allowing it to recirculate within the case.

This machine is running Limetech's UNRAID operating system, and hosts services such as Plex and OpenVPN in docker containers.