Sorry about the delay. I've been slammed with some other projects outside of the case mod world.
I hoped to do a bit today, but I doubt it will happen.
I'll post more soon, thanks for the concern and thoughts so far.
It does make sense, however I'm trying to keep everything off of the motherboard.
I think I may sleeve it individually and notch the top of the motherboard tray to slide it over.
The ATX will have a hole behind the board and same method used.
PCIe will probably get the same too. In...
Get a coupe 90* versions and use those on the drives... maybe use black as they don't stand out
and route them to the side of the gpu, not right infront of it.
svc has them cheap, as does monoprice