I like the current Metal Desktop/NAS Casing that's available, but it would be nice to have a 1U rack mount variant of it.
Does anyone know of an online retailer that would be willing to design custom casing? or is this something Pine64 themselves can do?
Are you looking to actually fit into a rack? Or you just don't have any other better ideas?
I say that because I have been playing with SBC for a few years now, and have accumulated some number of them. And so I keep thinking about cases for all this time (on and off). About modifying existing ones, or this, or that...
Well, lately I start to think maybe it's just better to put together my own case out of some of this extruded aluminum T-slot that has become so popular in the last several years. This way I can make it however I like. And I can add to / change it later. So in the future, this is a direction I expect I will be exploring even more.
But maybe you actually need a rackmount chassis for some reason. In which case, I think almost any would do? I dunno though. And you may have to drill some holes. The height (including heat sink) would be the main thing, I guess?
(02-18-2021, 06:45 PM)TRS-80 Wrote: [ -> ]Are you looking to actually fit into a rack? Or you just don't have any other better ideas?
Yes, the desktop version of the case is a little more than 2U in height and half the width of a standard rack. It's an awkward fit.
The other casing options (like the aluminum enclosure) aren't as elegant since they don't allow you to keep the other components (SDD/HDD, PCIe card, power) self contained.
Quote:But maybe you actually need a rackmount chassis for some reason. In which case, I think almost any would do? I dunno though. And you may have to drill some holes. The height (including heat sink) would be the main thing, I guess?
I could try looking for a generic small form factor rack mount case and try to adapt it, but I've never had much luck doing things that way.