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Learned the hard way not to press down on a fully loaded server. (alien.top)

submitted 2 years ago by CoderStone@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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My cpu is running on 15 degrees!

So... very heavy rosewill L4500U, fully loaded with 15 HDDs is apparently very heavy.

Very heavy enough to destroy the istarUSA rails that I got for it. These rails always lead to me having to push and pull to be able to pull the chassis out, so i hated them anyways. The problem is that the official rosewill ones suck, and i don't know what rails you can use.

I accidentally pushed down for one second on the end while trying to remove the top cover... and now i have bearing balls everywhere in my closed rack. Life is good! Any suggestions on better rails?

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[–] marc45ca@alien.top 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have my Rosewill 4000 series sitting on a pair of StarTech shelf rails.

https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-Server-Rails-Adjustable-Mounting/dp/B083N35SCZ

You loose the slid out ability but you're not having to deal with the headache of sliding rails.

That there were also $CA35 cheaper than the Startech sliding rails also appealed to my occasionally parsimonious nature.

I had some old Chembro rails before hand and they were just as big a pain.

[–] _cybersandwich_@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

I was dead set on using sliding rails for all of my servers...until I used sliding rails on a couple of my servers. They aren't worth the trouble imo. Maybe at datacenters or in non-homelab situations. Shelves have been so much easier and practical.

I found that, when I needed to work on a server, I really needed it out of the rack completely. I rarely found myself being able to take advantage of sliding rails. It was always easier to just sliding it out completely and throw it on my work bench.