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 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
Delete some of the data, makes it lighter 🤔
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.
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.
agreed, the ones holding my CSE846 are SO good, if only they were rosewill compatible.
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
My condolences lol
I have Startech 2u universal rails they’re fixed but are very strong.