It's important to note for the NF-A14 fans that the NF-A14 Industrial PPC-3000 fans are the best performing (by a lot) and that the normal NF-A14 fans are about the same as other 140mm fans.
Also note the Industrial fans are Loud As Fuck and move a ton of air regardless of what's in front of or...
You're talking about a difference of maybe a couple percent on sequential operations. If you bought a 14TB drive and connected it via USB for benchmarking, you're doing it so massively wrong.
I mean... I hit the newegg shuffle at $258 for an EVGA XC Black Gaming RTX 3050 on the first day. And you'd better believe this card is hitting ebay the second it gets to me.
It's really odd to have an 8088 to drives... are you just keeping the drives sitting on the desk? Normally you have an 8088, to some sort of adapter, to 8087/drives forward breakout.
The way i'd do this is 8088 / 8088 straight cable to this: https://www.ebay.de/itm/233211961053
then 8087 /...
That's Way Too Big (tm) to print. Unless this is an assembled drawing.
Edit: Plus major weakness at the 90 degree at the top where there's like no material holding it together. External separately printed gussets are good. I'd print that in .... six or seven pieces.
This is not an Intel problem. This is a you problem. You started a build without proper planning, purchased components without checking to see if you could get everything to make a working system.
Do you want a pony, too? Sorry, we're out.
Not sure what the outcome was here - I've had some shit luck with memory and a single bad stick onboard can cause no boot. Hopefully you can get to the bottom of it.