Comment on Expanding my laptops HDD capacity
haverholm@kbin.earth 2 weeks ago
Very cool looking project. I've been stripping motherboards from my busted old laptops recently, and am setting one up as a HiFi-ish HDD player at the moment. Next step would be some sort of NAS/homelab.
Since you're already 3D printing parts, is there any reason you didn't just pull the mobo, connect the drives and made a neat headless case for it all? Not that I don't appreciate that weird lapdozer you made! 😂
BarHocker@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
This way I have keyboard and screen attached in case I want to use it, and designing around the motherboard seemed more work for not much benefit. I do have enough rack space to not need to care about bulk, the server will not be in a place anyone can hear it and noone will regularly look at it as well, so it does not need to be pretty.
I opted for easy maintainance and tried to not overengineer it, so that it can get used sooner.
Fair, I thought that might be your reasoning 🙂 Either way, I've added a few of your purchases to my own wish list for future projects. Thanks for the inspo!