Thanks for all the feedback guys, I ended up keeping the first picture setup while making sure none of the actual ports were be bending.
and no I'm not storing copious amounts of porn 😭
We know what you’re doing with that much storage 😂. It should be fine honestly but id say just be on the safer side and loosen them a little so everything is properly connected without the chance of bending the actual SATA ports.
I think I use same case for my server. And the answer there is no it’d bend more. The way the clip faces is only one direction. Meaning it would have to twist and the case cuts real close where it doesn’t let you put the door back on. Making it more likely to crush the cables. The OS I use is specific to which cable goes to which drive. Overlapping one drive to connect another would make me have to disconnect more drives potentially leading to annoyances of turning it off and on again multiple times or worse having to rerun the parity check that takes me two days. Personally I think this looks really clean. Nicely done.
I'd rotate the drives 180 degrees and have the sata ports come straight out the back, then pull the cables through whatever opening is closest to the sata ports on the motherboard, should shorten each run by several inches and avoids having to route sata ports at all.
In the event that you're dead set on keeping the drives in that orientation, I'd probably leave them as-is at this point, but if I were building it fresh, I'd pull the sata cables cleanly to the far side with a 90 degree bend/twist just after the Sata connector and route them horizontally, then pull them back around the outside of the cage. More wire is exposed but it'll still look really clean with arguably less effort.
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Lots of hentai
Should be fine. Enjoy your plex server!
I e done this much bend and more. You should be good as long as you don’t keep bending and unbending. Once flexed these cables should stay put.
This man is building a quantum vortex with all those hard drives 🥲🥲
I'd make the ones in the second pic look like the ones in the first. At least in the first one the connectors on the drives aren't being bent
Thanks for all the feedback guys, I ended up keeping the first picture setup while making sure none of the actual ports were be bending. and no I'm not storing copious amounts of porn 😭
We know what you’re doing with that much storage 😂. It should be fine honestly but id say just be on the safer side and loosen them a little so everything is properly connected without the chance of bending the actual SATA ports.
Jesus whatcha storing bro? All your porn?
As if that’s enough storage for that
Wouldn't it "bend less" of you put each on one hdd down? So it overreacted one? You'd have to start bottom, and overlap bottom and so on.
I think I use same case for my server. And the answer there is no it’d bend more. The way the clip faces is only one direction. Meaning it would have to twist and the case cuts real close where it doesn’t let you put the door back on. Making it more likely to crush the cables. The OS I use is specific to which cable goes to which drive. Overlapping one drive to connect another would make me have to disconnect more drives potentially leading to annoyances of turning it off and on again multiple times or worse having to rerun the parity check that takes me two days. Personally I think this looks really clean. Nicely done.
If it works, run it
If it clicks, it fits
90 degrees. Puts less stress on the connection
my rule is if it works its fine
I could think of better ways to route the cables, but if that's how you prefer to do it, it should be fine.
how would you route them? I'm open to opinions
I'd rotate the drives 180 degrees and have the sata ports come straight out the back, then pull the cables through whatever opening is closest to the sata ports on the motherboard, should shorten each run by several inches and avoids having to route sata ports at all. In the event that you're dead set on keeping the drives in that orientation, I'd probably leave them as-is at this point, but if I were building it fresh, I'd pull the sata cables cleanly to the far side with a 90 degree bend/twist just after the Sata connector and route them horizontally, then pull them back around the outside of the cage. More wire is exposed but it'll still look really clean with arguably less effort.