The solution here is probably not a toaster.

Sigh. The head of the installation team is on the phone again, taking a very predictable swipe at the design team (my teams never get on, even if you force them to sit together during communal lunches and cupcake Friday's at the staff canteen). 'Do those clowns in design even know how plugs off a power supply work?' he sniggers as I try to keep a cool head as the supposedly level headed head of the project I am. 'Ass clowns, the lot of them!' 

Sadly after I get him to stop taking pot shots at the design crew and explain exactly what he feels the problem is, it turns out he's right. The SSD band looks okay but there's a glaring fault the installation team picked up within seconds.

Yes it seems you can't have three SSD's back to back to back in a build for the simple fact that the plugs of the power supply line with all three correct plugs can't go back to back to back when attempting to power them up. Not without crushing them to squash them in and causing considerable and most likely irreversible damage to the wiring within. And the 750 doesn't seem to have more than the three in the single line. 'But what if you went reverse?' I asked. Two ends one direction, middle one in the other. Sort of like:

SSD
DSS
SSD

'Nope, you'd need to trail the plug over the top and then either twist it to fit or flip the unit itself to make that work.' I don't press that any further, as much as I want this thing to work, I'd like all parts to be in the correct orientation when it does (although I'm sure the SSD wouldn't care) and make it look better than a pile of disks with wires all over the shop.

And so I break the news to the design table. Half empty coffee cups are hurled. Desks are overturned. Somehow (and I'm not sure the how here) one of the juniors manages to set a pot plant on fire, the same plant that was only watered an hour ago. All and all it's a far better reaction than I expected from the always fiery team. Perhaps they had too much pasta for lunch and are raging through a half strength food coma? 

'Unleash the kraken then!' The manager roars as he slams the now half broken door in my face. I'd be worried if I didn't know that when he said the Kraken, he meant A.I. I'm okay with that - the plan calls for an eventual AI build for Garage Intelligence, so why not whip up a A.I design for a SSD holder than has enough space for the wiring to comfortably sit and be functional enough to keep Installation off my back for at least an hour. 

What I wasn't expecting was the A.I to actually give the team and subsequently me, a file to print. 

I had a need for something stylish and functional but the design team thought it might look hilarious if the SSD's were looking like they were in a toaster. So that's what they told the options at 3Daistudio.com, 'build us a toaster!'

And lo and behold it gave us all a toaster...complete with toast no one asked for and some lettering from the drunkest Russian Sailor on shore leave they could bribe with some chilled vodka. 

Hello and welcome to GAOAGAGE? WTH??

Not to be deterred, the design team decided to try again, this time over at Meshy AI, this time asking the thinking machine not to include any toast this time, otherwise where we we slot in the SSD's?

And lo and behold it took the instructions and threw half of them out of the window, presenting us with a toaster that apparently has just one massive open slot and the bread we didn't want there to begin with. While our SSD's will probably fit in between the slices (with plenty of breathing space) this is not what anyone on the team actually had in mind. 

'Maybe AI isn't ready for such a hybrid project design?' I say meekly, which results in more cup throwing and chair tossing as I beat a hasty retreat back to my office. And while I'd like to give the design boffins a bit more time, I know the boys and girls in installation are keen to plug things in (and then go straight to the nearest pub) so I need to work up something quickly.

Yep, better whip out the old butchers paper and pack of crayons then!

 A FEW HOURS LATER

I'm at home after some long meetings and after day subconscious scrutinizing while driving back, I've decided simplicity is king here. Which is why I've decided to print up a half sphere with some openings to slot my SSD's into and get it up and running (read: printing) before you can say 'Well that's both simple and equal parts genius!'

And since half a sphere is a pre-existing shape already in Tinkercad, it's more designing some negative shapes the sizes of my respective SSD's, combining the positives and negatives and voila, one rudimentary disk holder with ample space for the plugs coming right up!

Two ssd's are the same dimension, the 3 is a couple of mm's wider hence the difference

They're probably not lined up perfectly but welcome to the art of prototyping with fine tuning (if needed) further down the track!

And even before printing it looks far more functional than both AI generated toasters!

Now to print it all out and see what happens!

TWO HOURS, TWO MINUTES LATER

Amazingly not only did it print without a hitch or need for supports, but even at just 12% fill it came out both light and sturdy. Even better, the measurements were pretty much spot on!

 

Blue dome for the win!

Now my collection of small Solid State Disk drives look like they're separated by slices of blue fruit. Blue fruit slices that amazingly also glow in the dark!

 

Care for some blue fruit?

Now there shouldn't be any problems connection up the single cord/rail to all three cards, the design team can continue to put their feet up and Installation can quit complaining...until the next plug in hiccup!

Job done!