2.1.4 NAS Assembly Part 4

Posted by JTSF at Friday, June 28, 2013

Part 4 - Assembly Finale

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Quite a mess.

All done! 

Glamorous shot =)

Say "Hi" to your new friend.

I used a comical looking USB hub as there's a need to swap thumbdrives for different OS during testing.

Blue leds

Temporary placement of NAS while I install the operating system. I'm gonna hide it in one secret corner upon commissioning.

Next up, operating system installation & configurations.

2.1.3 NAS Assembly Part 3

Posted by JTSF at Monday, June 24, 2013

Part 3
Continuation from Part 2.

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For the enclosure U-NAS NSC-400, a normal PSU is installed at the position as the picture below.

Back to my assembly, the choice to pick a PicoPSU is a wise one. Without a normal PSU taking up space inside the enclosure, there are plenty of free space released. I can install another 2x 3.5" HDDs (without hot-swap) to scale to 6 HDDs in total. This is making the best out of available resources. =)

SATA backplane

Mount the motherboard rear cover.

Going in...

SATAs, USB, front connectors LEDs

CPU fan, enclosure 120mm fan

Motherboard erected! Now, where is fatherboard?

Two screws below to secure motherboard

Two screws above to secure motherboard

Messy cables...

Tight spaces between the motherboard and enclosure structure.

Not too much allowance but most importantly, the PCI express slot is not blocked.

I have so much free space for cable management. =)  This will be a more challenging task if a normal PSU is used.

"Tail" of the PicoPSU. Meow~

The next post will be the finale of NAS assembly.