My Home Server
Found a 19” enterprise server on eBay for ridiculously cheap just over a year ago. Swapped out the fans for some Noctuas because the originals were screaming loud and mounted it behind my TV box. In the end it gave me thermal warnings so figured I owed it an upgrade.
Question 1 was where to put it, ended up deciding to make it with the same footprint as the IKEA KALLAX shelving units. With that decided the height was set by the width of the drive array which I cut out of the original server and kept intact vertically. Then quickly the mounting for the ATX motherboard and all the fans fell into place, I’d decided on clear acrylic for the enclosure and a month or so later after emptying out my overtime savings it was assembled.
Had one panel crack so replaced it this evening and just stuck it up in its home.
48Tb Raidz3 TrueNAS Scale build with an old MSI Z87-G45 Mobo, 32Gb of RAM, 8Gb of GPU, a SAS backplane and a whole lotta fans.