Comment Cheap Racks (Score 1) 204
I have a 32U Cabinet in my office at home. It houses a couple of my personal boxes, as well as an 8U server for work. I set this up as an off site backup for our most critical data.
There is a company here in Tempe, AZ called Instock Inc. (www.instockinc.com) that I buy all my racks and cabinets at they always have prices that will blow away anything you have ever seen. For example the cabinet that I have at home is a 32U Compaq cabinet with locking doors, side panels, etc. I paid $250 dollars for it brand new still on the pallet. This cabinet is normally $1200.
The downside to racknmountable equip. is that the price of normal 4U case is at least 4 times the amount of an normal ATX case. So what I have done with two of my computers is left them in normal cases and just put them on $40 shelves in the cabinet.
There is a company here in Tempe, AZ called Instock Inc. (www.instockinc.com) that I buy all my racks and cabinets at they always have prices that will blow away anything you have ever seen. For example the cabinet that I have at home is a 32U Compaq cabinet with locking doors, side panels, etc. I paid $250 dollars for it brand new still on the pallet. This cabinet is normally $1200.
The downside to racknmountable equip. is that the price of normal 4U case is at least 4 times the amount of an normal ATX case. So what I have done with two of my computers is left them in normal cases and just put them on $40 shelves in the cabinet.
