Geekpi's 10 inch 8U rack is on sale right now for Amazon's Black Friday week, if anyone has been wanting to buy it.

No this is not an affiliate link, I just bought one myself and thought I'd share.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CSCWVTQ7?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

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Do you ever have to rerun cables that no one will ever see just so you know they’re optimized and organized?

My too.

Here’s the result.

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Ok Mastodon peeps, what are some other fun items to add to my network rack?

I have all the basics (UPS, switch, patch panel, NAS , tool drawer) and some not-so-basics (Pi cluster, Mac mini cluster , HDHomeRun).

Send me your oddest, simplest, and wildest ideas!

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Always a bunch of effort making changes to this rack but it's operational again now.

I removed the F5 BIG-IP and put an actual shelf in there now.

I still can't decommission the QNAP TS-453A because I now need to RMA the QNAP TS-464U because Bay 3 has a dead MOSFET. So much for the HDD RMA...

Anyway, this is my last change before MFF!

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The new 1U storage server arrived today and a FortiGate rackmount kit so I installed them both today.

Unfortunately one of the new 18TB EXOS drives was Dead-on-Arrival, heads were banging constantly. So I shipped it off to SeaGate for an RMA. Was hoping to migrate files but that is now delayed.

I'm still waiting on a new shelf to arrive since the old one is no longer compatible with the new rack post positioning. Also, the QNAP B-02 rails annoy me because while both the rails and server internally fit perfectly inside the cabinet, the rear of the rails sticks out so I had to remove the rear door.

Also ordered some thin patch leads since the normal ones clog up the cable managers.

It's evolving into using more space efficient rack-mount equipment, slowly.

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