When I have my own house I want to setup a proper server room with rack mountable stuff and what not. But why is it that racks and rack mountable stuff is so expensive? A typical server rack is about 1k to 2k. What gives? It's just manufactured metal, there's nothing that special about it. Same with cases, a typical rack mount case will cost at least 500 bucks.
I'm thinking of just finding specs on dimensions and building one out of wood or something. Has anyone ever done this? Basically rather then rack the servers, it would just have adjustable shelves that they sit on, or something.
I'm thinking of just finding specs on dimensions and building one out of wood or something. Has anyone ever done this? Basically rather then rack the servers, it would just have adjustable shelves that they sit on, or something.