Custom Built NAS(Network Attached Storage)

Install the board and fans and screw them in to their places. Make sure you use the Top-Rear fan as exhaust and 2 Front fans as intake and do not connect the fans to the same molex as hard drives, get a separate 12v adapter and connect the fans to it just make sure the adapter is connected to the master switch along with the laptop charger. You will have to do some wiring changes because of the master switch so this is where you will be using the heat shrink tubes and insulation tapes to secure the connections. screw every thing in place and fix the adapters using double sided tapes. Once this is complete it is time to install the hard drives, connect the SATA data and power cables and secure the drives in to the drive tray, the drive tray I built is removable so handling the drives were easy. Connect the laptop power switch cables to the push button. We are done assembling now. Turn on the machine, connect the lan cable and test the working, log in to Teamviewer, connect and start sharing the drives to the network. Once the sharing is done you no longer need Teamviewer to manage the system you can do that via SSH to send commands to the terminal, I use Putty for SSH. I prefer Ethernet connection over Wi-Fi because its faster and more secure. You can have more drives connected but that will require USB ports as a normal laptop will only have at max 2 SATA ports, you can find lot of converters online and use them to connect more drives to the system but it will be slow if yo do not have a USB 3.0 connection.