Just thinking out loud here, but tossing around the idea of doing something like this.
Historically I have been driven toward full tower cases mostly because of the amount of storage drives I use in my main rig. Lately I've been thinking it might be a feasible solution to go with a much smaller case for the main components and build something separate to house only the hard drives. A pedestal type I'm thinking. Similar to the CaseLabs pedestals but would just house 3.5" drives, maybe an intake/exhaust 120mm fan setup and then have the SATA cables and power runs cabled up to the main case. Maybe through the watercooling holes in the back of a lot of cases.
Anybody ever done something like this? I'm guessing cable lengths would be the big hurdle here, but could be negated by some of the cases with inverted ATX (or other non-standard) motherboard mounting.
Don't really need to go the NAS route, and most of the external drive enclosures that wire up directly seem to have big drawbacks. Also these drives are not in RAID. I like to tinker or experiment, so just brainstorming. Not opposed to getting down and dirty with a Dremel either, lol.
Thoughts? Criticism? Affirmations I'm a complete idiot?
Historically I have been driven toward full tower cases mostly because of the amount of storage drives I use in my main rig. Lately I've been thinking it might be a feasible solution to go with a much smaller case for the main components and build something separate to house only the hard drives. A pedestal type I'm thinking. Similar to the CaseLabs pedestals but would just house 3.5" drives, maybe an intake/exhaust 120mm fan setup and then have the SATA cables and power runs cabled up to the main case. Maybe through the watercooling holes in the back of a lot of cases.
Anybody ever done something like this? I'm guessing cable lengths would be the big hurdle here, but could be negated by some of the cases with inverted ATX (or other non-standard) motherboard mounting.
Don't really need to go the NAS route, and most of the external drive enclosures that wire up directly seem to have big drawbacks. Also these drives are not in RAID. I like to tinker or experiment, so just brainstorming. Not opposed to getting down and dirty with a Dremel either, lol.
Thoughts? Criticism? Affirmations I'm a complete idiot?