I am thinking of building the case for my planned new fileserver from scratch. Not cutting up a case for more fans and such.

Has anybody built any computer cases from scratch like this? Wood, Plexiglass, Sheet Metal, etc.

Any pictures?

Before I go and spend a weekend building my case and a fair amount of money, I was hoping for ideas or suggestions on how I should design it.

Mine is going to have 4 ext. CD-ROM bays, 2 ext. 3-1/2 bays, 2, int. 3-1/2 bays. Be big enough to fit a Asus A7V motherboard into the case and feed the ide cables through a hole into the bottom half of the case (drive bays and power supply are in the bottom half, motherbaord is in the top half with all ports facing foward for easy hookup. I am going to have a door that covers the slots and cards on the front.)

I am thinking of using 1/4" plexiglass, lexan, or aluminum to build up the case with small metal or plastic blocks to screw the sides into at the corners.


Any ideas, comments, suggestions are welcome.

Any yes, I know for what I will spend to do this I can go out and buy a really nice case of equal value and simular capacity for $200-$400 dollars.

Thanks!