Howto Build your own Rack Cabinet

OC Mojo News Desk submitted their story about how to build your own rack. Useful for anyone who has a pile of audio gear, or stereo equipment, or perhaps a few rackable PCs that they think should be using space more efficiently.

Even cheaper solution...

[cperciva]

Use desktop boxes, and stack them on top of each other without any sort of enclosing rack.

Seriously, the major advantage of rackmount systems (vs. "pile of boxes") is that you can pull a server out from the bottom to fix/replace it without the rest toppling over -- and I don't think that most people replace hardware in their home network all that often.

Why bother build your own?

[DivideX0]

After all the dot-bombs, there are plenty of professional racks available dirt cheap at the auction sites or through liquidators. In fact, one of the places that I used to work at has 15 7-foot racks available for basically nothing (read: less than $100), right now they are only taking up space.

Cheap, and simple

[linuxbert]

Ivar booksheles from Ikea [ikea.com] make a good rack for just about anything. they cost are completely configurable, height width depth, sheves or not etc. and cost less then 50$ CDN
and they look really cool painted black.

Re:Cheap, and simple

[Anonymous Coward]

Have a look at the cluster at www.nsc.liu.se
It's called "Ingvar", after the founder of IKEA... Anyway, I'm gonna build my own now...

I Beams

[tinrobot]

Pixar uses steel I-Beams for their racks. Sturdy, simple, and mega-industrial looking.