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Thanks for the advice. I understand that managing the cables in small cases is difficult and would be compounded by the increased number of drives in the possible storage configs, which is why I'm doing completely custom cabling in my personal build with the case.As for the large number of drives, it's not something I suggest or recommend, again, it's just something that's there. A choice if someone wants/needs to use it or not. I cannot predict my own usage case 3 months from now, let alone 5 years from now. I have no idea if I'll need a ridiculous number of SSDs in the future, that's why if I ever do, the mounting holes are there. There are mount points for the 3.5" drives, but I do agree that they could be more elegantly implemented. I simply was designing with space optimization as the priority.As for the I/O plane and the issue of wires and connectors, I held the same sentiment as you early on in the design process. That's why I tried experimenting with an inverted layout to try and hide the cables by having them come out the bottom. But alas, I bit the bullet and just accepted the sight of cables as a reality and continued with size and portability being the priority, so further work in trying to hide the cables was nixed.
Thanks for the advice. I understand that managing the cables in small cases is difficult and would be compounded by the increased number of drives in the possible storage configs, which is why I'm doing completely custom cabling in my personal build with the case.
As for the large number of drives, it's not something I suggest or recommend, again, it's just something that's there. A choice if someone wants/needs to use it or not. I cannot predict my own usage case 3 months from now, let alone 5 years from now. I have no idea if I'll need a ridiculous number of SSDs in the future, that's why if I ever do, the mounting holes are there. There are mount points for the 3.5" drives, but I do agree that they could be more elegantly implemented. I simply was designing with space optimization as the priority.
As for the I/O plane and the issue of wires and connectors, I held the same sentiment as you early on in the design process. That's why I tried experimenting with an inverted layout to try and hide the cables by having them come out the bottom. But alas, I bit the bullet and just accepted the sight of cables as a reality and continued with size and portability being the priority, so further work in trying to hide the cables was nixed.
