World’s Most Stylish Server Rack - HOLY $H!T Ep. 15
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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1,353 words · ~6 min read
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server racks they're kind of like knock to a fans or construction equipment in
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that the only people they're winning any style points with are the folks who have
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this like deep appreciation for utility
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that's the way it's always been and that's the way that it looked like it
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was going to be forever until now clay
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Tech a division of iar USA with whom
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we've worked in the past on our surveillance server our pfSense router
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that we DIY over a span of months as well as our off-site backup server has
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actually designed and manufactured a
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piece of what they're calling it
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Furniture the WT retro style
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rack so let's have a look and see what
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one of those is
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zot GTX 1080 mini is extremely Compact
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and Powerful measuring just 8.3 in in
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length check it out at the link in the video
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description I actually have no idea how much these things cost I have no idea
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how many of them have been made they are listed as build to order on the clay Tac
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site but what I do know is that like for
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a company whose experience is mostly in building black nondescript
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boxes the craftsmanship is looking not
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bad all right Brandon you win your battle it looks like we're taking this
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tablecloth off
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fine here it is
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oh man that's
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heavy very well packed that's for sure
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so they've actually got a bunch of different models available everything
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from a very very small very shallow
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cabinet all the way to one that's actually quite a bit larger and deeper
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than this one so I went for a 9 U 450 mm
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so that's 45 cm deep cabinet so
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obviously something like this wouldn't be suitable for mounting you know like
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uh like a really long storage server or
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anything like that but if you're looking for a super cool place to put some AV
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Equipment or uh you know some Network
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switches or or you know a very very small machine this is looking pretty
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good let's flip it over so I've clearly
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got it upside down okay so the craftsmanship is not
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perfect um you know Steve Jobs you know
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cable managed the inside of you know laptops and phones probably wouldn't be
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that impressed with the uh the wood trim not meeting up here and with these kind
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uh unimpressive plastic feet but let's
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go ahead and turn it over and see what the tops like maybe it makes up for it
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in the parts that you actually see so
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much like a sort of retro styled trunk or case you've got uh is
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this actual leather they're actually leather I mean
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I guess it's one of those things where if you're going to go rward you might as
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well go full full RW so the handles on
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the sides the corner protectors here and here are all genuine leather now ah
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let's put some gear in it shall
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we it's about a half an hour till WAN Show so I'm thinking uh let's put all of
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our audio equipment in it what could go wrong Focus rate just set us up with
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this stuff and this is a this is exactly the the kind of thing that I would
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expect someone to put in a piece of you
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know rack equipment like
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this remember kids always take a picture of the back
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before disassembling something that you don't know how to put back
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together sh
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sh
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sh it's M5 threaded rather than having
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um like what you'd see in a full-size cabinet with the inserts on the back and
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the much heavier threading so I really
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wouldn't recommend mounting anything super heavy in here but man once you get
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some actual gear in here I don't know what it is about the aesthetic of like
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audio equipment and this retro kind of charm
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that we got going on here but I think this thing looks really cool actually I
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had a thought I've got this chassis
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sitting around from uh actually it's an iar USA chassis that I was supposed to
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do a project with and never got around to it um and it looks like no that was a
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bit of an oversight when it comes to the design of
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this thing so 1 two 3 one two 3 one two
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3 one two 3 yeah so if they had thought
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of it they could have made it so that the bottom Hol is lined up perfectly for
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something to sit right on the bottom but as it is you would actually have to
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support it off of these screws which I I
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don't think would be recommended however
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if you did just want to like ghetto mount it then you could throw some kind
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of a storage machine or some kind of a processing machine down here in the
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bottom no big deal okay I got a couple more things I got a network switch and
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our old ice scuzzy box here just to fill it up have a look at what that's going
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to look like and uh oh man yeah see this one
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this network switch is pretty heavy and you
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go a I put it in upside
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down ah whatever yeah that lineus guy
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what does he know about rack mounting things let's put this baby in
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that looks so cool I love
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it it's like freaking amazing it's like
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on the one side it's like oldfashioned
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and retro and the other side it's like oh my
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goodness look at all these dials and
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buttons but now the final
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Benchmark those leather handles how do they hold up to it actually being
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loaded oh okay hold
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on you know what I'm going heavy side
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heavy side on my
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side okay hold
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do not even lift okay so the handles are
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holding up fine but I don't think I can move it on my own
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anymore so thank you for checking out today's episode of holy sh the most
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retroist server cabinet ever don't forget to
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can you give me a hand with this thing