Hi my modding friends, I'm working almost 2 weeks now on a nice little project And would like to share this with you. A kind of MCE / NAS for in the living room (actually the only place without a PC) My wife was always against this, so I had to promise that it has to be a winner And (almost) without sponsorship This year's Cebit, I bought a kind of prototype NAS thing , made of some Acrylic and aluminum. Real ugly, but this is gonna change....I hope I have a few last remaining pieces of UV green acrylic so this I'm gonna use for this build, with black Hardware: 2x HDD, Western Digital Greenpower 1.5TB 1x Intel 160 GB SSD Een Asus E45M1-1 Deluxe Een 220 Watt Coolermaster PSU 4x 60mm Coolermaster fans The "thing" disassembled And everything pulled apart The Asus mobo Enough Sata's and a PCI-e DDR3 It fits Already cut 2 green pieces of acrylic Top Bottom And placed the 2 HDD's Fits next to the motherboard More coming right up
Really interesting design bro and modern approach, now we need some more dont you think?? Mod on man!
Thanks AnG3L, your absolutely right Update!!! For both sides I have cut a piece of UV green acrylic Cut the shapes for the air-outlet Same form as the original, still need to cut the fanholes for the 60mm fans Also cut a piece acrylic for the front. And another piece slightly curved with 60mm fanholes. I changed the fanholes and made square holes with the dimensions of the fans And sawn an aluminum plate with fanholes, this will be black acrylic which is looking better, I think In the upper layers of black and green acrylic (in the middle) I cut a rectangle with the dimensions of an SSD The cut rectangular green acrylic on the SSD. Made the aluminum bars black. And a little teaser for the next update
I hope this next update will satisfy you even more Ok you guys, this is becoming a high speed build The small tubes/ spacers that I showed in previous update is to create distances between the green and black acrylic Step by step Green acrylic on top placed the bars Placed the original sides with 60mm fans mounted Cut a horizontal plate and placed it Against this comes the bent piece of acrylic with the 60mm fans Here I slide the existing piece and clamp the curved piece Also cut the fanholes in the side plates Placed the spacers also to the side panels. (bolts are going to be replaced ) Both sides And on top placed spacers again with a piece of black acrylic Most acrylic is finished, Next job placing the hardware
Thanks Lol, this is the last green I have Update !!! Coolermaster has given me a nice little PSU. The flex ATX 220w Sad but true ... has to open for the sleeve job First series of cables sleeved black. Molex etc. also black Used my Lamptron for the first time and must say it is a very useful kit. Made the 24pins green. And some black (had no more green) To fit everything I have placed the mobo, HDDs and rams. Placed the HDDs with some spacers Now I can anticipate the little space I have left, so i've made an aluminum tray for the PSU Made it black And attached it to the green acrylic. Also made the rear from a piece of aluminium and cut the recesses for the IO shield and the PSU Made the IO shield black Fortunaly I had still some black Dominators And now the challenge to get everything in the case ... but will certainly succeed
Little change of plans but I've got the solution!!! My wife wanted something for her Iphone, smartphone, Ipad, Tablet, MCE and NAS Hopefully this will keep her quiet
Kier your projects are always an inspiration to the modding community. That NAS and iPad stand looks fantastic, I am so jealous right now.
Hmm, forgotten to update this one...sorry Final Update!!! Where were we. The SSD I think I have a nice 60GB SSD, this is more than enough for her. Some extra storage On the pictures you can also see that I have removed the sleeve... With it there was no room left. Made some LEDs and a switch in it Power on Made a cover for the front Must find some nicer bolts lol The cover for supporting her..... And installed W8, time for her to find out how it works and where everything is That's it!!!
