[Gllug] home server rack - quiet options

John Hearns hearnsj at googlemail.com
Thu Feb 16 17:46:26 UTC 2012


Karanbir,
take a look at catering shops and the wire racking they sell.

There was also some webpage I saw abotu an Ikea table which happens to
have an exactly 19inch spacing - I forget the model.

On 16/02/2012, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote:
> hi Guys,
>
> I have now been living ( and surviving .. ) for 3 months with only my
> laptop inside the house. All the desktop / server machines have been
> sitting in the garage. An experiment to see if I could get by with just
> machines in the DC and whatever I could do on the laptop. Its worked
> well ( the laptop is an i5/8gb ram/ssd ).
>
> But now I miss my home lab, and want to bring it back to life. Thats 4
> Desktop tower box's and 5 rack servers. The rack these machines were in,
> sadly didnt survive the home move last year.
>
> So, given a very limited budget - what would everyone recommend in terms
> of 'storage' to park these machines, in the garage. Just getting an ikea
> bookshelf and stacking stuff up seems quite enticing.
>
> I have enough power in there, and I have a WiFi/Enet bridge, so power +
> network should be a solved issue already.
>
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