DIY 8U 10" 3D Printed Network and Server Rack

[mike126]

Built early 2025, this mini rack holds most of my networking and home server devices. It's been great for keeping things tidy and pretty fun to build too. Sits inside the TV cabinet with a small hole drilled at the top back to help with cooling.

Gear

• DIY patch panel
• TP-Link TL-SG108PE Gigabit Switch
• TP-Link OC200 Omada Controller
• Raspberry Pi 3b
• TP-Link ER605 Gigabit Router
• Lenovo Thinkcentre Tiny M720q
  • Intel i5-9600T
  • 40GB DDR4
  • 2TB NVME + 256GB SSD
• 4 port multi board supplies power for everything (Switch, Pi, Router and Lenovo), with the switch providing POE for the OC200.

Also part of this setup, but not in the rack is a TP-Link EAP670 Wifi AP powered by the POE switch and Asustor NAS for extra storage.

Software

The Lenovo M720q is running Proxmox with a few VMs and containers. On these there are a bunch of different services including Plex/Jellyfin media stacks, immich, paperlessngx, statistics for strava, it-tools, networking-toolbox, n8n, gitea, mealie, umap, miniflux, stirling-pdf, home assistant, code-server, audiobookshelf, frigate, open speedtest and more. I also host a few personal projects and websites I'm working on. Basically everything is running in a docker or LXC container.

Rack

• Two 16U rails chopped in half with a hacksaw (this saved me heaps of $$) https://surplustronics.co.nz/products/10899-rack-strip-single-angle-16u-black
• Everything else is 3d printed, such as the sides which use this part https://www.printables.com/model/1210276-10-inch-rack-side-support-connection
• ER605 router is mounted with this part https://www.printables.com/model/1210271-10-rack-mount-for-tp-link-er605-router-omada-with
• Patch panel https://makerworld.com/en/models/576762-10in-server-rack-patch-panels-1u-12-keystone-jacks#profileId-497372
• Ethernet keystones are generic ones from Aliexpress
• Switch https://www.printables.com/model/548336-10-rack-mount-for-tp-link-tl-sg108pe-switch
• OC200 and Raspberry Pi are mounted with a custom remix of a couple of mini rack mounts I found

[Zebrone1]

What di you used in the middle part of the side and the top botton? I cannot find those anywhere

[mike126]

What di you used in the middle part of the side and the top botton? I cannot find those anywhere

@Zebrone1 Middle of the side was a custom part I made, I've just uploaded this to printables https://www.printables.com/model/1506463-10-inch-rack-side-support-middle-connection

Top side, middle top and handles on the top I've also just added here https://www.printables.com/model/1506480-10-inch-rack-additional-parts

The bottom of the sides are this part https://www.printables.com/model/1210276-10-inch-rack-side-support-connection

If you're interested, happy to send a .zip dump of all my files when I've got a little more time too 😄

[Zebrone1]

Thank you so much, will try to print them tomorrow at an angle (my little neptune 4 can't handle it)