An elegant NAS/Server with support for 3.5 inch drive and active cooling with a fan. It works wonder as a backup server, for example for TimeMachine or ZFS replication.

If you want to use ZFS remember to use the 64 bit version of Raspberry Pi OS

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The case is for the Raspberry Pi 2/3/4 and it's divided into 3 compartment. The center one is for a 3.5 inch HDD, one is for the Pi and another one can fit a 2.5 inch drive or any usb device that can fit in. For example a 2.5 Gbps usb adapter or a RTL-SDR

There's 17mm of clearance for a SATA extension or two 90° adapter and you will need a powered USB - SATA adapter (Obviously).

I suggest using a round fan like the 90mm AMD Ryzen stock cooler fan (VARIANT A) it looks cool and it's more space efficient

Another version (VARIANT B) is available, I haven't tested it yet but it should work and any square 80mm fan

I tested the AMD fan and it works with the 5V provided by the Pi's GPIO

You can use an USB extender if you want connect some other USB peripherals (Obviously)

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