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A few weeks ago, the Systems Administrator at my company stated that he had a rack that he was going to throw out. I volunteered to take it off his hands. After going through the beurocratic process of confirming that the company could let it go to me, I requested the day off to come and pick it up.

My mother in-law came to the house and woke me up. We drove up to work and it took two of us to put it in the back of her van. When I got home, I started unscrewing everything. Each piece had a good bit of weight to it. I figured that I could make it easier to transport into the house and downstairs if I took as much off as I could.

My plan worked fine. Assembling the rack was a different story. I didn’t know how it was originally assembled. Since tonight was my Friday night Sci-Fi lineup, it took me over 4 hours to put this thing together during the commercial breaks.

Ok, I might be going overboard here, but I totally feel geeky just having one of these in my basement. It’s not a unit to hold rack-mountable servers, but then again, I don’t have rack-mountable servers. It is perfect for what I do have - desktops.

I’m already noticing that the wires can be hidden behind things on the sides. Things feel so much more accessable to hook up and change around. Even our living room is looking a bit better with a pile of humming servers in the corner. I only wish that the original doors came with this shelf unit so that I might be able to reduce some noise.

Tags: Rack, Server, Servers, System Administrator, Hardware, Shelf, Shelving Unit, Desktops, Geek, Geeky, Geek Furniture, Geeky Furniture, Work, Order, Free

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