I’ve been meaning to pick up a rack for my server for a while, but could never find an affordable option. I didn’t feel like spending $500 on a 4-8 unit box when I only had the one server so far. So when I came upon an ad on UsedVictoria for a 42U Server Rack for far below the asking price of a unit 1/10 the size, I could hardly pass it up. Granted instead of overshooting my current load by four times, this overshoots it by about twenty times, but you can’t beat the price. The enclosure would have been approximately $1500 new.

You can view the specifications here but the gist of it is that it weighs in at around 350 lbs, and stands 6’10” tall.

In the long run I’m hoping to fill it with servers for various purposes: storage, hosting, backups, media streaming. In the short term I’ve loaded in my hardware and it doubles as an excellent sound dampener.

On another front, a good friend provided me with a brand-new 46” Sony Bravia that I had placed on my office filing cabinet for a time, but now that I need more space, I wanted to put up a wall mount. I managed to do so and I’ve been enjoying it as a secondary PC display for my office system.

Finally my office is coming together. It’s got a long way to go but I’m starting to see it develop.