As I mentioned in my previous post, finding a great spot for the pump and multiple hard drives was a challenge. I manged to get it worked out, and with the pump mounted, I could move on to the hard drive mounts.

There will be room for 4 hard drives total, in two different locations. What you are about to see, are the drives that will be mounted below the center support section in the case.

I decided to use a channel type mount. What you see here is a piece of aluminum channel cut and bent. You’ll have to forgive the lack of few pictures here. When I was live streaming this part, I forgot to grab the camera…

In each of the channels, I’ve placed some rubber ‘U’ molding. This will act to dampen vibration.

Here are the approximate locations for the channels. Due to the way I wanted to mount these, bolts or rivets wasn’t going to cut it. I decided to break out the torch and HTS-2000. The channels were brazed in to place. I was live streaming during this portion as well, hence the lack of in progress pictures.

The braze..

Next up, I needed to make brackets to mount to the hard drives. These brackets will slide in to the channels.

I drilled a few holes, and mounted the drive…

And finally, the drive mounted in place.

Next I’ll be working on the remaining two hard drive mounts, as well as a custom shroud to cover the center section of the case. Stay tuned!

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