Comment on Rough draft NAS is complete!
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 week ago
PLA warps over time even at low heat. that said, as long as you have good airflow it shouldn’t be a problem to use it for housing, but anything directly contacting the drives might warp.
I thought about doing this myself and was leaning towards reusing drive sleds from existing hardware. it’ll save on design and printing time as well as alleviate problems with heat and the printed parts.
the sleds are usually pretty cheap on ebay, and you can always buy replacements without much effort.
ramenshaman@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Printing the bracket for the drives in PLA now. I designed them to make minimal contact with the drives so I think they’ll be ok. Even in the rough draft setup the 140mm fan seems like overkill to keep them all cool.