T'was in my cart. Ordered. Thanks.
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Okay, by popular request, I made a 15 Pro max version.
https://www.printables.com/model/593243-iphone-15-pro-max-ultra-slim-case
Btw, I've changed the Dryer instructions to allow for use up to 50c.
https://www.printables.com/model/575370-sovol-dual-spool-filament-dryer-temperature-accura
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I started beefing up the storage for my Plex server a few months ago. My home server is built in a random mid-size tower case I had laying around. After getting to 4 3.5" drive, I ran out of physical space to add anymore drives.
This led to wanting to build a JBOD enclosure. For some reason though, they’re all relatively expensive for what equates to a metal box.
So, I instead decided to 3D print one with plenty of space for expansion. I landed on designing it around using a standard ATX PSU, 16 3.5" drives, four 120mm fans for cooling, and space for SFF-8087 to SFF-8088 converter cards.
Designing the case was fairly straight forward, albeit pretty time consuming. The real challenge though was breaking it into parts that would fit on the print beds of my Bambu X1s. I ended up using mortise and tenon style joinery to interlock the bottoms and sides along with half-laps with dowel style joints to join the side panels together.
I was finally able to get it together enough to be used and put it into service today. I’m using an ESP based relay to turn the PSU on with the ESP being powered by the standby 5V pin off the PSU. The drives are connected to the converter card with an SFF-8087 to SATA cable. The drive connection is carried to the server through an SFF-8088 cable and a PCIE LSI HBA card.
I still have to print the lid and make some tweaks to the 3D model before doing a more extensive writeup and posting the model to Printables.
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Clean case design! What material did you print with? I would think PLA would be ok with the cooling you have, but you could possibly see some sagging or warping in the panels over time with a sustained thermal load (especially with 16 active drives). Might be worth adding some support beams into the top cover rather than just a flat plate, but I assume you have thought about all of that already 
I did a project a little while back and used a dovetail joint to fasten a print around a square bar. Notched out the main piece and added a cover with dovetails, and it ended up working really well. Its definitely an effective method when it comes to merging parts into bigger ones as well.
I have another project way down on my todo list that's a large LED sign, and I was planning to join the pieces together using dovetails as well. Just need to get around to actually designing it one day 
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Nice! I just replaced two HP MicroServer’s and 2 small NAS’s with 1 big NAS, a DS1621+. The thing is a beast with it's 4 core 8 thread Ryzen CPU.
I thought about making a custom server again (I used to run OMV), but I just couldn't be bothered.
PS, I have a dedicated Plex Server (the Dell SFF PC) with Nvidia Quadro video card and the NAS hosts the files.
OMV works well, but it's annoying.
There's a configuration change, do you want to apply it? You sure? Really?
JUST APPLY THE CHANGE!!!!! 
They recently made a change with how containers work, basically neutering portainer access and making you use their docker stuff, annoying a lot of folks.
Been tempted to pick up a small Synology NAS and turf OMV.
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That's just pretty darn beautiful. Really impressed with what you did.
Not wrong!
Yeah, that gave me the sh!its big time!
I was unimpressed that half the basic container management features you needed were missing!
Dont bother with the little ARM powered ones, they are missing all the useful stuff. Grab something with a Ryzen CPU as they actually have enough grunt to be useful, including support for BTRFS Snapshots, NVME SSD Volumes, ECC Ram and so on. The only intel ones that come with ECC support are their overpriced Xeon powered units.
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I used PETG. The cooling probably would have been enough to use PLA except for the slots for the drives since it's a friction fit to hold them in place. I actually tested using dovetails, but the layout of the rest of the model wasn't conducive to using them.
I thought about going that route, but couldn't bring myself to spend the money on compute that I didn't need. The PC running Plex is pretty beefy. I recently kicked it over to Proxmox with piHole running in a container and VMs for TrueNAS, Windows, and Home Assistant. The Windows box is running Plex, but I may move it to a standalone container at some point.
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I'm planning to replace my Intel Mac Mini with an M3 Mac Studio in the next 12 months, so for me the compute power and ram expansion means I can spin up x86 Windows VM's if I need them in the future.
I also run half a dozen different docker containers on my NAS.
My Plex PC is a Core 2 Quad 9550 + Nvidia Quadro P400 running Ubuntu and I dont want to mess with it - SWMBO would kill me if she couldn't watch her fav shows.
I loved everything about TrueNAS, except the User Management - I found it utterly impenetrable.
That's fair enough. When I decided to setup a "proper" home server, I had an Intel Z590 board laying around from a package on Newegg when I bought the GPU for my main desktop (they're idea to limit scalpers during the great GPU crisis of '21). I also had some spare RAM, SSDs, and PSUs. So I just needed the CPU and opted for an i5-11500. So it's that, 64 GB of RAM, a 2 TB SSD, and I just picked up an RTX 3060 for transcoding in Plex.
I toyed with trying to pass the iGPU from the CPU to the Windows VM in Proxmox for a few weeks with no luck and finding a few others with the same iGPU having the same issues. I could get the passthrough setup, but it would throw a generic "Error 43" in Windows. My guess is that it has something to do with driver support on the Linux side.
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HO LEE CRAP!!
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Her stuff is pretty slick.
Here we are trying to eliminate stringing, and she builds prints based on them.
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I made the mod today. After a 3-hr test run without a spool, it registered 50c/19%.
I did it without soldering or shrink tube. I had noticed a small, rectangular well in the roller base plate. After cutting the thermistor off the heater board, I removed the well's bottom, added some side vent holes to the small compartment, and fished the thermistor assembly up into it as I reassembled the base plate. Worked!!
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Nice, good work
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Finally wrapped up the JBOD enclosure (for now at least).
https://www.printables.com/model/607901-jbod-enclosure-for-16-hdd
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My dog turned one of my ThirdReality buttons into a chew toy so I modelled a replacement case.
https://www.printables.com/model/618022-thirdreality-button-case
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Wow, looks brilliant (as my friends over the pond like to say).
But I was hoping for a pic of the chewed button. 
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Last two pictures on the model page 
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