Day 3

The hard drive rack assembly is very similar to the optical drive version; I start of by cutting more plates from the old PC case



The black dots in the photo below are fly droppings



Time to bring out the bug spray



So after two hours of cutting and sawing I have 8 plates for 2 HDD racks



The first series of mounting holes I made with a small drive and then I used a Dremel to cut it out, but as you can see in the photo below it’s not quite straight



My second attempt worked out better, I marked the places where I had to drill and the result is much better




A series of L shaped metal pieces will help keep things together



A few holes for the rivets



And it’s done! It went a lot smoother compared to the DVD rack assembly, practice makes perfect



And this is the end results; it may seem that rack deforms when a hard drive is screwed tight into place, but it’s less extreme than the picture makes you believe



I repeated the whole process and ended up with two HDD racks which can hold up to 4 drives; I’m only using 3 hard drives for the moment, so there’s still room for a future upgrade