DIY NAS: Making an improved DIY HDD Cage
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- Опубликовано: 27 дек 2022
- In this video I'll make a new HDD cage from aluminium profile.
This was my second attempt at making a DIY drive cage for my server case. The first time I used styrofoam to make the bottom part, but after releasing the video, I started disliking what I had built more and more. The aluminium top part which I made in the previous video was also not very well made, mostly because the measuring and marking tools I used were not precise enough. While it proved that the basic concept is fine, it was also a very cheap solution, and like I just mentioned, it had flaws. That's why I remade the HDD cage in this video. The previous video is unlisted now, because I don't want other people to copy my bad design, but here is the link in case you want to see how bad it was:
• Replacing the HDD cage...
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SPECS:
CPU: Intel i7 930
MEMORY: 6GB OCZ 2000MHz
MOTHERBOARD: Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R
GPU: Nvidia NVS 300 512MB
PSU: Sharkoon SHP 650Watt
SSD: 1x 32GB for the OS
HDD: 6x 1TB 3.5" for storage
SAS CONTROLLER: DELL H200 in IT-mode
CASE: Inter-Tech IPC 4U-4088-S
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LINKS:
My Gaming Channel:
/ @yukatigaming
My Twitch Channel:
/ yukati_gaming
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MUSIC:
All the music in this video was made by myself
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Popped up in my feed while looking for DIY HDD cage ideas. Super cool idea and definitely embodies the "Make it work with what you have" spirit!
Weird how this just showed up on my feed... a year later. Really nice diy fabrication. More work than I personally wanna go through, but still inspiring for my own projects. And a very nice upgrade from the old one. I remember it.
Good stuff 👍! Very creative and intriguing design.
nice DIY project
Thanks :)
Great job...
cool!
Cool idea
Temu had this plastic Drive case kit. I think I got it for less then $8.00 bucks. This seems the way to go about it if you just want screw, glue & play. It seems to fit the spirit of the build. Though, I really think your is much more sturdy.
For all else? Just getting a cheap used Server case like those from the SCSI era, and throwing in new parts to that sure seem the way to go if you are just doing a bunch of drives for something like a media center where you already have all your media on the original storage medium as a backup.
Otherwise?
It really does seem to be a better idea to just load up on 22 TB drives on sale, Then get LTO-9 tape as a backup medium. It does cost a lot up front. But when you consider that today, A Normal person with a family can make close to 20TB of Data a Year with Videos in 8k and photos etc?
The TAPE thing starts to make real sense. And when they get down to about $50 bucks a tape or less?
That's seems like the way to go.
Most of our media / Data we just keep around. By the time maybe in 20 years or so? They might come out with petabyte hard drives people might be able to afford.
Nice video, great build. As for the HBA card, do you have it in IT mode? I also have a SAS2008-IT, and I've been able to make a ZFS pool with them without issue. I know there are more factors to it, but just an idea! Best of luck in your build.
Thanks :)
Yes the SAS card is in IT mode. I bought it pre-flashed.
The reason why it's not working is because one of the HDD is probably broken.
I put the HDDs in the original cage in the previous video, and one of them stopped working rather quickly. Then I sent it back, got a replacement, tested it with badblocks, no issues. Then I put it in the original cage, at the exact spot where the previous broken disk was, and within a minute the new (tested) replacement disk broke. I think it was caused by vibration resonance. Sadly I didn't have time to continue yet because a lot is going on in my life right now.
É uma plaquinha sata? que VC pois para expandir os HDs?
It is a SAS controller. You can connect SATA or SAS HDD to it.
X58 build? Just curious about the cpu fan orientation?
Yes, using my old i7 930.
When I first built this server, the fan was blowing air down onto the cpu, but since I have the small 80mm fans which mostly pull air from above the cpu fan, I decided to turn it around, so now (also at the end of this video) it pulls the air up and away from the cpu & motherboard.
Muito bom
When you get some time, touch the heat sink on the SAS controller. You'd want to add a small fan on it. 😊
Thanks for the tip. I actually already put a small fan on it, but since a lot has changed in my life this year, the project ended up in a corner again.
I do plan on finishing it soon though XD
Everything is do abble until :)
В такому кріпленні жорсткі диски пропрацюють не довго. Вони будуть перегріватись і вібрувати, що досить швидко їх вб'є.
You know you can buy hdd cages and just attach them with screws. If you're going to put effort into fabrication why not get a test bench as a motherboard tray and build a case around it.
Well there was a HDD cage in there when I bought the case. I put some disks in there, and within minutes one of them broke. So I thought "that's weird, must have been a manufacturing error or something", so I sent it back, got a replacement, tested it outside the cage with some software that writes in every sector, which took hours. Everything was fine, so I put it in the cage, in the same spot the old one was in, set everything up, started writing data to it, and the brand new disk that I had just finished testing for hours broke again within minutes. Then I assumed that since they are desktop disks that aren't meant to be stacked this closely, probably vibration killed it, maybe resonance. I then decided that I should probably get a different cage with some damping material between the disk and the cage. I couldn't find anything cheap that looked good, and since I was still a student back then, my budget was pretty much 0, so I decided to build something. Also, the plan was to get a server rack later on, so I could add an external sas enclosure for more disks in the future, and maybe some rack mount audio equipment.
Just buy a damn case.
So what you are saying is that you are too stupid and unskilled to do any fabricating? On the plus side you get high marks as a troll.