After designing this minicase I immediately knew I wanted to apply the same design language to my rack.
It features drawers (front only), cable channels on the sides, rack rails on both front and back, removable side panels, a door with fan mounts and magnetically removable dust filters.
It needs some polishing before sharing the STL, but I think it already looks pretty nice.
Nice rack.
Wow this is awesome on so many levels!
Could you just buy wood sticks of that size in the hardware store, or did you have cut them to width yourself? And how is the wood glue sticking to the plastic flare? (Never tried using wood glue on plastic before)
I’ve just bought a few pack of these 8x8x500 sticks. And yes I tried some wood glue from the hardware store and they simply stuck very well to the PETG prints.
Damn, that looks great
Man, one of these days I need to get off my ass and do some designing like this. I’ve been wanting a (normal 19") rackmount case designed for short depth, front-mount I/O, and hot swap drive cages for a while now, but can’t get it out of my head and into CAD (let alone physical reality).
Please share a pic of one of the mounted devices, I couldn’t identify them.
From the top:
- 3 Chinese 2.5Gbit managed switches branded Horaco
- 3 Chinese N100 “NAS” ITX boards (the cheaper green ones). They are in a Proxmox hyperconverged cluster (HCI)… aka Proxmox + Ceph.
- Each one has a Pico PSU
- a PCIE card (mounted on an right angle PCIE extender) with 2 additional 2.5Gb realtek NICs
- 2 NVMe drives (mirrored boot drives)
- a SATA SSD for Ceph
- an empty shelf for a ITX board (an AM4 with a bunch of NVMe drives I have yet to move from my previous rack)
- the last shelf can accomodate:
- an automotive power distribution that feeds 12V to the switches and the N100 boards
- a couple of 12V to USB PD boards, that I use to power the type c devices on the Rack shelves on the back
- a (missing) TFX PSU that will power the AM4 board
- a second TFX PSU that feeds 12V into the distribution blocks and powers basically anything else.
I also have some rack shelves on the back:
- a Pikvm based on a Pi2 I had laying around
- a wled controller for the fan lights + a esphome temperature based fan controller
- a Sonoff Dongle M
- a IEC C13/C14 power strip that distributes power to the PSUs
Needless to say I bought everything before the DRAM craze and I feel very sad for who has to work with the current market.
Everything is mounted on custom 2U or 3U 3D printed 10" rack shelves.
Oh my… What a sweet little chunk ! I’m jealous, I wish I had the need for something like this…
Still on my old repurposed laptop and thinking to switch to my used old desktop case as homelab “server”.
But this looks so nice ! Congrats !!