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?
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.