I remember my first own switch being a Netgear as well. It was a regular 100mbit switch, but it had the words “ProSafe” on it and was made of metal, so that felt really good… Basically it looked exactly like in your picture.

I think that was also the only piece of Netgear equipment I ever really used 😅. Did they ever change the design?

Haven’t done it myself, but I’d say the most important thing is to not short anything out. A lot of 1u cases already come with a plastic sheet on the bottom.

Maybe see if you can get some sort of stand you could tape or screw into the case and then the NUC onto that. Maybe NUC board to itx screw holes adapters exist, don’t know.

That’s where I’d start, next thing is getting the ports accessible. Most stuff is available as keystones, at least USB and such. If you can 3D print, an adapter for the io shield to hold some keystones shouldn’t be too hard to make.

Add some case fans as well and that’s about it I’d say.

For that kind of money you can get new mini PCs that will be much more powerful and have more than one NIC, like the other comment mentioned.

Take a look at Beelink mini PCs for example.

Wait, so they deleted the data from your device even before your subscription was over?

They couldn’t just disable your access to their cloud once the subscription expired? I’m far from being even a novice dev, but I know you could simply lock a user out of your service lol.