Ikepuska

Thanks a ton! I don't know sketchup too well, I'm more of an autocad and it's derivatives kind of guy. I'm guessing there is a simpler way to do it, but I'm taking the components and creating diagrams with the dimensions labeled for ease of use. Anything you learned in the actual building of the project that I should watch out for when I start working with the actual MDF?

I found one tray in particular that I'm absolutely dying to use with this design. It's like it was made for it. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817998184 It can take one 3.5 and one 2.5 in drive, and has an integrated 2 port USB panel which connects to the 19 pin MOBO header. It's totally going into the top tray. ETA: It's perfect for that one SSD cache that I like to have in my NAS systems I've also found the following two trays for the rest of the stack. http://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-5-25in-Trayless-Mobile-3-5in/dp/B000KS8S9W http://www.amazon.com/Kingwin-SATA-Internal-Swap-KF-1003-BK/dp/B00P2PNOOM I'm leaning towards the Kingwin based on the aesthetics and the design just looks like it's better to me at least.

That is one fantastic custom built case. I've been looking into building a NAS lately and came across this thread. I do have a question. Do you still have the digital schematics for the case, and would you be willing to share them? I'd love to try my hand at building this case for myself, and the schematics would make it drastically easier.