On Tue, 6 Apr 2010, [email protected] wrote:

> We're starting to get a lot more heavy equipment (e.g. blade chassis,
> storage nodes) that needs to be racked, which has increased our risk for
> personal injury or equipment damage. There's a variety of "server lift"
> products I've found, but I'm wondering if anyone has personal experience
> with one that they'd be willing to share.

we have one at work and it's a huge help.

in practice the sliding platform on it doesn't help that much as we don't 
leave space between the servers for it to slide into, but just having the 
ability to get a flat surface to the exact right height that you need for 
getting the server in and out of the rack and then being able to 
raise/lower it to a convienient height to work on or slide onto other 
transportaion is a huge help.

It allows one person to rack a server where before it would take 2-3 (and 
only that few because you can't fit more near the rack)

it's one of those things that seems expensive, but pays for itself pretty 
quickly in time saved (completely ignoring the issue of backs saved)

David Lang
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