RAW Drive Caddy

If you're anything like me, you keep raw hard drives around, connect and disconnect them when you need them. It all seems innocent until an adjacent drive bangs on the PCB on another drive and that's it for the drive, unless an ESD incident occurs first.

So, here is a quick and easy RAW drive caddy. Just to set your expectations, this is not a case or adapter of any kind. It is just a plate that covers the underside of the drive to protect the drive electronics as well as your nice table top.

The part I made here is basic white PLA, with about 2mm of TPU. But after the part came off the printer and installed on a drive, I think it is best to start the print with carbon fiber PLA to give it more stiffness, then finish off with TPU.

I printed mine with 4 shells, 2 layers top/bottom and 25% infill. The infill may be a bit overkill but I was going to stiffness, which it is not, but using CF PLA will fix that and I can probably reduce my infill. I'll be printing about 5 more