[Malvern] Rack Mounted Equipment

[Richard Forster]

Many are specific to the concept of rack mounting. For example you can't 
fit a vertical expansion card in a 1U system so there might be a short 
riser card with space for 2 expansion cards parallel to the motherboard.
There might be a narrow 'laptop style' optical drive, again for space 
reasons.
The 1U system I was playing with today has a power supply (actually, 
space for 2) without the standard connectors to the motherboard; it just 
clicks into a space in the chassis and magic occurs to get the power to 
the board. I'm not kidding, it's really hard to spot where the power 
from both potential supplies is routed to get to the connectors onto the 
motherboard.

Higher U systems have more room so might be more similar to a desktop 
machine (tower on it's side) but I've no real experience with the guts 
of them.

There are also blade systems which are totally non-desktop.

R


Ian Pascoe wrote:
> Hi folks
> 
> Quick question - if you rack mount computers are the mother boards the same
> as what you'd find in your desktop, or are they specific to the rack
> mounting system you're using?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> E
> 
> 
> 
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