Historical Overview

At some point in my life, around middle-to-high school age, I became the household expert on “where everything is.”

Something cooking…

I moved the servers just in time.

The drives I ordered for the new NAS were a bit of a surprise choice.

Hunger Is No Joke#

As we know, you can never have too much space. To the green Barracuda — once the biggest at 8TB — three red IronWolfs at 12TB each were added, replacing the 4TB WD drives. But all good things come to an end, and inevitably so did the free space on all those disks. For quite a while I had an expansion unit on my wishlist — a box that lets you connect a few extra drives to an existing Synology. And then Black Friday 2024 arrived.

Have you met Tardis?#

A blue kitchen cabinet, whose primary purpose is to house 3D printers and associated junk.

Plan#

• door locks
• slabs for printers
  • one for Calculon
  • another for Eva
• [/] vinyl sound insulation
  • [/] rear and side walls at the bottom
  • rear and side walls at the top
  • bottom doors
  • top doors?
• [/] foam seal insulation
• [/] electrification
  • extra set of outlets inside?
  • [/] chargers for
    • phone
    • tablet
    • laptop
• [/] placing printers
• ventilation (forced, ducted?)
• dynamic fan control
• kill-switch for the printer via smart plug
• placing servers
• shelf pull-out stoppers
  • design
  • print
• [/] grommets for cable holes, 2 pcs
  • [/] design
  • print
  • installation
• bottom shelf
• [/] bricks
  • paint
  • dry
  • install

Progress#

Door Locks#

Slab for Calculon#

Vinyl Sound Insulation#

Printers in Place#

Shelf Stoppers#

Why they are needed: shelves rest on four pins, and if you slide a shelf forward, the rear edge of the shelf falls off the two back pins.

I thought it over and decided not to wait for Black Friday, nor for the storage to run out ahead of schedule. In the spirit of increasing diversity inside my NAS, a green Seagate joined the two existing red WD drives.

And here is what arrived to me in packaging proudly labeled “Made In USA” — a bigger box of boxes! It’s a bit larger than a matchbox, shown for scale. And a cat for scale too. The creature really wanted to get into the frame, so it helped however it could.

Bought this little box-of-boxes to store boxes for boxes )))

The thing itself is not very large (25×20×16), but the compartments turned out to be long enough to fit tweezers, a spare spark plug, and my DIY phone-to-tripod mount adapters. Now all the junk rattles around in one place. Well, almost all of it… Another box is on its way….