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What is up my fellow modders!
 
Let me introduce you to our next project Node Zero!
 
BACKGROUND
Node Zero was conceptualized as our move back home on the west coast meant leaving our staircase server hub back in Tennessee. Now that I’ve been back home in NV for the past year, I have been missing not only our PLEX and Gaming servers, but our backups and our RAID 5 system.
 
Because of this, I started brainstorming a new case to house our server hardware, something that could handle many HDDs. After searching around, I just didn’t like what I saw and didn’t want to go slim server rack(and of course money issues prevents a couple grand for a server)
 
So we are replacing this case with a Nanoxia Rexgear Hydra 2 Mining case, and modding it to accept up to 12 HDDs and an SSD or two.
 
OLD SERVER CASE


HYDRA 2 CONCEPT




HYDRA 2 CASE(Stock Photos)



Here in this YouTube video we unbox the Arctic cooling gear and the Nanoxia HDD bays. Also has hardware going into our Honda Prelude PC mod.
https://youtu.be/xiwT1sEO_3Y

Have a wonderful day and I hope you are excited as I am to see this build come together!!!

bcavnaugh
This would make a Great Chiller Case.
 

With all the room inside this most definitely!

Hoggle
Looks like a good build with a lot of room. 12 HDD and 2 SSD is going to be really interesting to see how the build goes since cable management will be interesting. Hopefully people are able to learn somethings from watching this build come together.

Thanks!  Hopefully I'll learn a few things as well, probably now to set up the HDDs with a SAS connection or maybe I can get away with just using a SATA expansion card.  Either way, I'm excited to get this build done and have it set to keep upgrading as needed!

 
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Good morning fellow modders!



So lets get another update on Node Zero and get the PSU shroud created!  We first found our piece of material and cut and bent it into shape. Then test fit it with the HDD cages.
 





Then cutting the holes for the grommets was easy as 1..2…..3
 




Then a dash of paint… and presto!  Time to hide those nasty cables.
 





And…. bam!  Power cables managed and look at all that SATA power just sitting there waiting to be utilized.
 





Next time we install the HDD cages and get this bad boy up and running!!
 

Cool GTX
Nice design & color combo

Thanks! hopefully it works as awesome as it looks lol

EVGATech_JoseC
I've been meaning to build a NAS system for myself, I might steal some ideas :p

Anytime!  Feel free to reach out with any questions or info how we did something.  A NAS system is super beneficial to protect critical information and just fun to use