On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Luke S. Crawford <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 10:58:41AM -1000, Paul Graydon wrote: >> It's amazing how many of our rails still required screwing into the cab, >> even as they took advantage of the square holes. > > Yeah; I wouldn't feel comfortable without at least one screw on each side > of each rail, and at least one screw per server going through the > rackmount ear to secure the server. (I have heard this one called the > 'earthquake screw' but the thing I want them for is making sure that when > I pull one server, only that one server is pulled. Badness can result > otherwise.) > [...]
I hope everyone reading this remembers the discussion the next time someone asks about buying name-brand servers vs whitebox. Dell et al put a lot of effort into stuff like this. I cannot see having any of these problems with Dell rails. They mount and unmount very securely in literally 2 minutes. The servers have a latch on the front that clips into the rail to keep them from sliding out. These are the kinds of things often pointed to as "frivolous" when comparing to white-box vendors, though they are obviously an issue real people deal with. -☙ Brian Mathis ❧- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
