Hacker News Reader

This is exactly what I did when the 12th gen came out. My original mainboard is now running our home NAS and NVR.

I'd love to learn more about how you used your mainboard for a nas. What did you house it in?

I'm not the parent, but they've announced they've partnered with Cooler Master to release a case [0]. A while back they released drawings so you can 3D print one [1].

[0] https://frame.work/products/cooler-master-mainboard-case [1] https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/Mainboard

I'm using this 5-bay USB 3.2 drive enclosure [1] and the official Framework 3d printed case [2] in polycarbonate ordered via Craftcloud (the Cooler Master case would have been both cheaper and easier!)

I also looked at TB4 disk enclosures, but the bandwidth was overkill for spinning rust hard disks. There's a lot you can do with 4 USB-C/TB4 ports. I also have a Coral USB stick connected for frigate.video inference and a 2.5Gbps USB NIC (waiting for better thunderbolt 10Gbps NICs to become available). One fun convergence is when I want a keyboard / display / mouse I can plug the mainboard server into the same thunderbolt dock I use for my laptop peripherals.

[1] https://sabrent.com/products/ds-sc5b

[2] https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/Mainboard/tree/main/Mec...

Reply on news.ycombinator.com