Storage & Power · Nautilus Forge

2U 6-Bay 3.5" Hot-Swap HDD Cage

Printables · 6× 3.5" hot-swap · author calls it experimental. Street price is about $90 each, and it takes 6.

Opens the planner and mounts it in the highest free slot of your rack. Ctrl+Z takes it back out.

Running cost

≈ $3.24 /mo at idle

30 W around the clock is 21.6 kWh a month, about $38.88 a year at $0.15/kWh. Flat out at 54 W it would be $5.83 a month.

Set your own electricity price under Power draw in the planner.

460 g · 22h 00m print

2U 6× 3.5" hot-swap cage. About $9.20 of PLA at $20/kg (0.4 mm nozzle, 0.2 mm layers).

Rack screws are for DeskPi and Tecmojo rails. A printed frame uses M5 heat-set inserts instead.

At 192 mm deep it fits every frame in the planner, including the 200 mm DeskPi T0 and T1.

Each opens in the planner as your own copy.