While building a new PC last year I was annoyed by the case industry's recent regression away from having heaps of 3.5" hdd bays like the good ol' days.
Starting with the included Coolermaster HDD sled print from here, I modeled a hdd cage that mounts to the side intake fan/AIO mounting area of my O11d evo xl. I tried to make it as generic as possible, it also fits my older non-xl o11d, and as such I expect it would fit most cases with an o11d front/side intake style.
Important Notes! please read:
- The cage sides are modular, place/stack clones of each 'side' of the cage exactly 40mm apart in the slicer of your choice and join them together into a single object for each side.
- Add the feet caps to the last cloned object to give the lowest module's rails enough strength.
- Depending on your case's AIO mounting, you may need to make it (some multiple of 3)+1 bays for the holes to line up, e.g. I printed mine mine 7 (6+1) hdd bays tall :) you'll only need a brace every 2-3 bays.
- Cage sides are best printed with the outsides as the print bed face.
- Some hardware required!
- Each brace uses M4x6mm bolts, and 4x M4 heat set threaded inserts.
- Each side of the cage needs some M4 bolts, and M4 heatset threaded inserts to attach to the pc.
- HDDs get warm, and so can the inside of your case, close enough to PLA's softening point that I'd recommend print in something with a higher melting temp like PETG. If there isn't a GPU pumping out heat next to it, you might get away with using PLA.
- A touch of scilicone lube in the rails helps prevent binding. The braces can be loosened off/tightened to help get the fit on the sleds just right.
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