Swilky

I have not had a chance to work on the case in almost four weeks because I have two brand new baby girls which has kept me very busy! I used the dimensions from the protocase website (link) to draw a cutting template in open scad for the PSU, IO Shield and PCI slots in the rear panel. Using Inkscape I printed the cutting template on a piece of A3 paper at 1:1 scale. I just need to tape down the cutting template and get to cutting with my jig saw.

I am not sure how I am going to stop the drives from moving around, maybe some kind of flat metal spring to put a small amount of pressure on the hard drive to stop it from moving around, ill cross the bridge when I come to it. I have no plans to use a back plane; just cables. I think the lightly hood of a fire is very remote so I am not really worried about making it fire safe. I was thinking of using conductive paint on the inside of the case for some electromagnetic shielding, the case is going to sit in a metal server rack which will also provide some protection.

Do you mean power in watts or voltage as they are two different things... if you mean voltage it is 2.5v https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_physical_layer Power in watts would be voltage * amps, I do not think there is much current flow as sensing circuitry would be high impedance so the power in watts would be extremely low, tens of milliamps or less.

I have cut the front, back and sides to size on the table saw and made the fan holes in the front panel using a trim router and a circle cutting jig. I then glued and screwed the front panel to the sides, I was going to use dowels as seen on the left side but I decided screws would be easier. Before I glue and screw the back panel on I need to make all the cutouts for the PSU, IO shield and PCI slots.

Hi Guys, I'm in the process of making a Storinator style NAS build. The build will Fit inside standard rack Be 5ru high Have enough room for 8 drives + 2 SSD's (OS + cache) Have 6 x 120mm fans (RGB for better performance) House a standard ATX motherboard Build log to follow.

I cringed when I saw the video about replacing the Cisco router with a Linux firewall...