My cpu is running on 15 degrees!
So… very heavy rosewill L4500U, fully loaded with 15 HDDs is apparently very heavy.
Very heavy enough to destroy the istarUSA rails that I got for it. These rails always lead to me having to push and pull to be able to pull the chassis out, so i hated them anyways. The problem is that the official rosewill ones suck, and i don’t know what rails you can use.
I accidentally pushed down for one second on the end while trying to remove the top cover… and now i have bearing balls everywhere in my closed rack. Life is good! Any suggestions on better rails?
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I have Startech 2u universal rails they’re fixed but are very strong.
I have my Rosewill 4000 series sitting on a pair of StarTech shelf rails.
https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-Server-Rails-Adjustable-Mounting/dp/B083N35SCZ
You loose the slid out ability but you’re not having to deal with the headache of sliding rails.
That there were also $CA35 cheaper than the Startech sliding rails also appealed to my occasionally parsimonious nature.
I had some old Chembro rails before hand and they were just as big a pain.
I was dead set on using sliding rails for all of my servers…until I used sliding rails on a couple of my servers. They aren’t worth the trouble imo. Maybe at datacenters or in non-homelab situations. Shelves have been so much easier and practical.
I found that, when I needed to work on a server, I really needed it out of the rack completely. I rarely found myself being able to take advantage of sliding rails. It was always easier to just sliding it out completely and throw it on my work bench.
I was just about to suggest them
My condolences lol
Delete some of the data, makes it lighter 🤔
I’ve seen some bad rails and some very good ones. The SuperMicro 4U sliding rails are built like a tank. In the past I’ve stacked 3 loaded 4U chassis on top of a server with SuperMicro rails and it held it like a champ. Don’t worry, I installed rails in them eventually. Having them stacked made it impossible to service any of them but the top one. The Silverstone rails I have are “OK” but not great. I would trust them not to just break but I’m not going to be server stacking.
Are these supermicro ones tool less? I hate trying to install the istarusa rails because the rear screws are impossible to get at if you have ZeroU PDUs installed. The best rails i have used are the tool less CIsco UCSC-RAILB-M4, it takes a total of 30 seconds to install a server in a bare rack.
Yes they’re tool less
agreed, the ones holding my CSE846 are SO good, if only they were rosewill compatible.
I just bought the istar rails for my l4500u. Now I’m nervous
Where did you get the hot swap bays? Mine aren’t hot swap and I would love those but I only see 12 bay hot swap option
Icydock ones, they are very expensive though. The chassis alone now costs 1 grand for me :( At all costs avoid rosewill, I lost all my data due to that.