ATX rackmounts

[nihil]

i'm thinking about moving all my servers at home into rackmount cases. i was just wondering, how many people here use rackmount atx cases? and if you do, where did you get them?

 

[Geekbabe]

Rackmount is sexy !!!

check here



cases

 

[mpitts]

We use rackmount for all of our stuff at work.

Check rackmount.com

 

[nihil]

cool. thanks guys =) my only other question is this, what does the 1U, 2U, etc... mean? ie: RM0152 2U ATX Rackmount Chassis.

 

[mpitts]

1U, 2U, 4U tell you the height of the case. Look at some of the pics on the website I mentioned to get an idea.

If you are building rackmount servers out of standard ATX PCs, I would recommend 4U. They may be larger, but they also don't require any speical power supplies or PCI converters. Normal PC components will generally be too tall for a 2 or 1U case.

 

[nihil]

ah i gotcha. thanks a lot for the info.

 

[CocaCola5]

How about a rack to house say 4 or 5 (4U), are there any that will easily fit under your desk and still look good.