OT : Small home rack

[keith smith]

I'm thinking tech folks like us.  I sure would find it beneficial.  By building your own you can control the price and performance.  It may not be cheaper initially however once one does an upgrade the benefits are there.

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Keith Smith

--- On Thu, 8/5/10, Bryan O'Neal <Bryan.ONeal at TheONealAndAssociates.com> wrote:

From: Bryan O'Neal <Bryan.ONeal at TheONealAndAssociates.com>
Subject: Re: OT : Small home rack
To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Date: Thursday, August 5, 2010, 11:14 AM

Racks are an issue of space - most people have the space for a big
tower in there home and would rather have one tower that ran quieter
and had twice the performance specks of the equivalent cost rack
server. I have a 2 U (clients) rack behind me now that I don't run
because of the noise. Instead It is all VM'ed and I copied the VM's to
my home tower server for sanity.

But that is just one dissenting opinion. your target market may be out their

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Eric Shubert <ejs at shubes.net> wrote:
> keith smith wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was wondering if there would be a need or market for a small simple rack
>> for home use.  Maybe one that would hold three 4-U (or eight 2-U) rack mount
>> servers.  I'm thinking it would stand about 3 ft.  I would think there would
>> be a need for wheels on the bottom or a way to swivel the servers to get to
>> the back.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> ------------------------
>> Keith Smith
>>
>>
>
> I think that a tower would suffice in SB/home environments. With virtual
> hosts, of course. ;) I'm personally using an old (retired/reprovisioned) P4
> SFF workstation (w/ 5 VM guests) as a server.
>
> --
> -Eric 'shubes'
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