I’m about 95% done with the design and wanted to see if anyone has any advice/critiques/comments on the design before I pull the trigger. I’ve been in my own echo chamber while designing this.
The one thing I have yet to model are the front face plates that will have the filters on them, I’ve got ball detents designed into the case to facilitate pulling the front plates off and on already though.
Current design’s specs:
- Almost exclusively aluminum construction
- mATX and ITX motherboard support
- ~45lbs empty
- 23.7 x 7.6 x 23.0 inches (LxWxH)
- 32 hot swap 3.5" drive bays
- 5 5.25" drive bays
- 4 140mm fans to ventilate the hdd section
- 2 120mm fans to ventilate the 5.25"/motherboard section
- provisions for small dual 92mm radiator
- “retractable” nylon webbing for handles (not modeled)
Some of the things I was on the fence about:
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The hdd section fans can only be 25mm in depth in current design, if Phanteks comes out with a 140mm T30 and they’re larger depth I’m going to be kicking myself for not being able to run them… but I don’t want to add extra length to the case now based on a hunch for a fan that doesn’t exist.
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Not sure on what the design of the front filter/face plates should look like, I was thinking about just doing vertical pleats of filter material attached to a 3d printed frame that snaps into the case.
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Not sure about the 92mm radiator support, it’s such a weird size but there isn’t room for a CPU cooler taller than 70mm with the PSU situated where it is, so if I ever went with a high TDP processor it would pretty much necessitate water cooling.