10" Racks

I have a 10" rack at home. When we moved into our house, it was a right mess, all the carpets etc needed binning. so i ripped them all out and ran CAT6 and COAX throughout the house. All to the cupboard under the stairs. Some years later, we knocked the wall out for the cupboard to make way for a tumble drier. the 10" rack looks neater and allowed me to put it higher up on the wall.

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digitus have some racks and and panels with keystone, which i already used, so the switchover was easy. Mikrotik switch does the job. I might get a new router and pop it on top. as it would be in a pretty good location in the house, and could add some 2.5GBE ports.
 
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champ222 said:
I have a 10" rack at home. When we moved into our house, it was a right mess, all the carpets etc needed binning. so i ripped them all out and ran CAT6 and COAX throughout the house. All to the cupboard under the stairs. Some years later, we knocked the wall out for the cupboard to make way for a tumble drier. the 10" rack looks neater and allowed me to put it higher up on the wall.

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digitus have some racks and and panels with keystone, which i already used, so the switchover was easy. Mikrotik switch does the job. I might get a new router and pop it on top. as it would be in a pretty good location in the house, and could add some 2.5GBE ports.
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Pics aren't working :)
 
champ222 said:
annoying... it was when i posted it... not sure i can be bothered to find one that works in the UK
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It's not a reginal thing, as I use PI on occasion. It would seem you, or someone from your IP has exhausted any free bandwidth hence why it's suggesting you 'upgrade to premium'.
 
I'm on the fence on keystone / patch panel (for a smaller home build vs enterprise, etc.) would probably neaten up my build but at the same time adds another potential point of failure and extra stuff that isn't really needed.
 
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A bit ghetto and cable management needs some work (got some slim/flexible cables on order) but latest incarnation - still work in progress:

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From bottom to top - J4125 based mini PC (MeLE PCG35) which does NAS duties and does basic network services, etc. then UPS, KVM, Dell QBM1250 mini PC w/ Core Ultra 265 and 32GB RAM for game servers, VMs and various other projects, then obviously the network switch.

Nice thing is the idle power use is really really low for the capabilities.
 
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All power to you but a PDU for a 10" cabinet having room for 3 plugs is very funny to me, I don't think I'll be changing my feelings on the form factor in a hurry.
 
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Caged said:
All power to you but a PDU for a 10" cabinet having room for 3 plugs is very funny to me, I don't think I'll be changing my feelings on the form factor in a hurry.
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My original goal was to only have 1-2 mains plugs and use DC (ideally 12V as that then pairs up nicely with the UGREEN US3000 UPS) to power stuff which gives a lot more distribution options in the form factor including DC PDUs. But unfortunately the options for network switch, which could be rack ear mounted rather than shelf, are pretty limited and the Zyxel and Digitus switches are AC input :( and the Dell mini PC is 19.5V which adds another complication.

For form factor's sake the way to go would be IEC C13 if you wanted to connect a lot of stuff up, or try and find a AC UPS with multiple outputs to supplement - but unfortunately there isn't one which nicely fits without messing about - some of the Eaton units are close but you'd have to pull the rack apart and fit them in the bottom :(
 
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with all the crap on the internet... trillions of bits wasted on nonsense videos, you wouldnt think adding a picture to a forum would be this difficult.
 
Rroff said:
Didn't know Mikrotik did 10 inch rack switches albeit looks like they are mostly in white which doesn't fit my setup.
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It might just be this one. They also do a 2.5gbe 8 port i think which is a similar size, but doesn't come with the 10" rack ears, just the ones that fit it to a 19" rack. Though youd never be able to tell from the website because they cant be bothered to make it clear. Digitus do a 16 port 10" switch too i think.
 
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