The original post: /r/homelab by /u/YnosNava on 2025-02-22 14:10:53.
Since some of you asked me to show my wooden NAS, here it is.
Since i’m making my homelab on a budget, mostly with component i salvage or get for free it costed me few Euros, and when I saw the price of cases with hdd slots easily accessible I thought to myself, “Well if i’m going to make this NAS with free components, then why not build my case with wood I have laying around ?”
Fast forward 4 days, I am here with a woden case built around my components, first thing I made were the HDD spacers so the disks won’t jiggle when in.
Then I made the support for the boot ssd, wich is simply two thin wood pieces with a whole the side of the SSD screwed to a woden piece fixed to the bottom plank.
Next step were the supports for the walls and the top, I made them a few milimeters longer than the power supply, exept on the front part where they are a bit higher than the HDDs.
Next, I made the walls, I simply put them aside the NAS, drew the line they were supposed to have and cut them before fixing them for good.
Since the NAS needed some cooling I drilled the air intake before screwing in a pc fan.
For the back I drew the ports of both the PSU and motherboard before cutting the shapes.
Now install TrueNas on this 10tb bad boy and here you have a NAS for “free” with sufficient cooling !
The shapes on the back to the ports are not totally the same as the ports themselves cause at first I made it for a i5 4th gen, but it was not powerfull enough for streaming, so I bought a new mobo for and I5 10400 I had laying around and here we are today, works amazingly !