server racks they're kind of like knock to a fans or construction equipment in
that the only people they're winning any style points with are the folks who have
this like deep appreciation for utility
that's the way it's always been and that's the way that it looked like it
was going to be forever until now clay
Tech a division of iar USA with whom
we've worked in the past on our surveillance server our pfSense router
that we DIY over a span of months as well as our off-site backup server has
actually designed and manufactured a
piece of what they're calling it
Furniture the WT retro style
rack so let's have a look and see what
one of those is
zot GTX 1080 mini is extremely Compact
and Powerful measuring just 8.3 in in
length check it out at the link in the video
description I actually have no idea how much these things cost I have no idea
how many of them have been made they are listed as build to order on the clay Tac
site but what I do know is that like for
a company whose experience is mostly in building black nondescript
boxes the craftsmanship is looking not
bad all right Brandon you win your battle it looks like we're taking this
tablecloth off
fine here it is
oh man that's
heavy very well packed that's for sure
so they've actually got a bunch of different models available everything
from a very very small very shallow
cabinet all the way to one that's actually quite a bit larger and deeper
than this one so I went for a 9 U 450 mm
so that's 45 cm deep cabinet so
obviously something like this wouldn't be suitable for mounting you know like
uh like a really long storage server or
anything like that but if you're looking for a super cool place to put some AV
Equipment or uh you know some Network
switches or or you know a very very small machine this is looking pretty
good let's flip it over so I've clearly
got it upside down okay so the craftsmanship is not
perfect um you know Steve Jobs you know
cable managed the inside of you know laptops and phones probably wouldn't be
that impressed with the uh the wood trim not meeting up here and with these kind
uh unimpressive plastic feet but let's
go ahead and turn it over and see what the tops like maybe it makes up for it
in the parts that you actually see so
much like a sort of retro styled trunk or case you've got uh is
this actual leather they're actually leather I mean
I guess it's one of those things where if you're going to go rward you might as
well go full full RW so the handles on
the sides the corner protectors here and here are all genuine leather now ah
let's put some gear in it shall
we it's about a half an hour till WAN Show so I'm thinking uh let's put all of
our audio equipment in it what could go wrong Focus rate just set us up with
this stuff and this is a this is exactly the the kind of thing that I would
expect someone to put in a piece of you
know rack equipment like
this remember kids always take a picture of the back
before disassembling something that you don't know how to put back
together sh
sh
sh it's M5 threaded rather than having
um like what you'd see in a full-size cabinet with the inserts on the back and
the much heavier threading so I really
wouldn't recommend mounting anything super heavy in here but man once you get
some actual gear in here I don't know what it is about the aesthetic of like
audio equipment and this retro kind of charm
that we got going on here but I think this thing looks really cool actually I
had a thought I've got this chassis
sitting around from uh actually it's an iar USA chassis that I was supposed to
do a project with and never got around to it um and it looks like no that was a
bit of an oversight when it comes to the design of
this thing so 1 two 3 one two 3 one two
3 one two 3 yeah so if they had thought
of it they could have made it so that the bottom Hol is lined up perfectly for
something to sit right on the bottom but as it is you would actually have to
support it off of these screws which I I
don't think would be recommended however
if you did just want to like ghetto mount it then you could throw some kind
of a storage machine or some kind of a processing machine down here in the
bottom no big deal okay I got a couple more things I got a network switch and
our old ice scuzzy box here just to fill it up have a look at what that's going
to look like and uh oh man yeah see this one
this network switch is pretty heavy and you
go a I put it in upside
down ah whatever yeah that lineus guy
what does he know about rack mounting things let's put this baby in
that looks so cool I love
it it's like freaking amazing it's like
on the one side it's like oldfashioned
and retro and the other side it's like oh my
goodness look at all these dials and
buttons but now the final
Benchmark those leather handles how do they hold up to it actually being
loaded oh okay hold
on you know what I'm going heavy side
heavy side on my
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do not even lift okay so the handles are
holding up fine but I don't think I can move it on my own
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