by Fieryphoenix » Mon Jun 20, 2011 2:05 am
I ripped apart an old 10Mbit rackmount switch to put my 3.5" SATA drive in along with my Pogoplug Pro. I was going to use its power supply but it wasn't rated for the amperage the drive would need. Good thing, too, because by coincidence the mounting posts for it are the same spacing as the Pro's MB. I used a column of low temperature hot glue as the fourth support, and I dremeled holes in the actual switch PCB to attach the hard drive to. I gave up trying to be clever with mounting after that and just velcroed the power supply for the hard drive and the Pogoplug Pro shell with the plug's power supply still inside. Toss in a Cat6 inline coupler, a fan, and some foot long USB extension cables and I have a rackmount Pogoplug server! Now if I only had a rack.