Selfmade Racks & Mounting Techniques for Hard Disk Drives

Here are guides to build a rack for computer hard disk drives as well as HOWTOs for different HDD slot mounting techniques. If you have written a tutorial yourself (or if you know of tips and tricks not mentioned here), please submit a new entry.

Custom Hard Disk Rack	Are your harddisks running warm, or are you out of space for new drives? What about giving them some more air? Here you have the answer: A strong, elegant, homemade harddisk rack.
Adding Extra Hard Drive Brackets	Have 10 hard drives in your case and you finally ran out of room? You just need to add a couple of extra gigs just for backup purposes but you realized after buying that mid-tower that the case only has two 3 1/2 drive bays? If that's your problem here's a simple way to mount a drive inside a case, using two slot spacers as brackets.
HDD WipeOut Station	How to wipe out and securely erase the data of 16 hard disk drives in under 10 minutes, 8 IDE and 8 SCSI drives at a time. This HOWTO shows how to add four additional Molex connectors to the IDE wire.
Vertical HDD Mounting	This guide explains how to mount two 3.5-Inch HDDs vertically into their slot using the Cooltek Disk Silencer. This way the 5.25-Inch slots will be kept free, the HDDs become decoupled and the cooling will be optimized (in German).
Hard Drive Replacement	Illustrated HOWTO about replacing a hard drive in a PC.
Build a Computer - Installing Hard Drives	There are three basic hard drive technologies in use in today's PC's, and here all three are covered.
Ghetto Hard Drive Selector	A guide about a hard drive selector to accommodate two operating systems on two different hard disks. Perfect for someone like he who uses Microsoft-Windows for gaming and Linux for business.
Hard Drive Power LED Swap	How to change the HDD power LED in the front panel of the computer case.
Selfmade Storage Pods	Build Your Own $2.8M Petabyte Disk Array For $117k. This guide follows two primary goals: Keep upfront costs low by using consumer-grade drives and readily available commodity components and be as power and space efficient as possible by using green components and squeezing a lot of storage into a small box. The result is a 4U rack-mounted Linux-based server that contains 67 terabytes at a material cost of $7,867, the bulk of which goes to purchase the drives themselves.

Other Resources

• How to Build or Modify Network-Attached-Storage (NAS) Devices