Build Your Own 19″ Computer Rack

July 13th, 2005 · No Comments

$Home Built 19\" Rack$

This guy has written a report on his latest project, building his own 19″rack:

I think the idea of having a 19″ rack at home is every techs dream. This was also the case when I wanted to decomission my power hungry and space consuming server PCs and replace them with a 19″ rack, but it seems that when ever the frase “19 inch” is added to any PC part the price skyrockets.

That was the end of my dream until a friend told me he was going to build a new 19″ rack for his music equipment as his old rack was getting to small. So we looked into it and discovered it used the same dimensions as the PC racks.
Goals of the project:

* Low cost

* Space saving

* Low power consumption

* High disk space

* RAID1 space for importent data

I chose Mini ITX motherboards with their size (170mm x 170mm) and low power consumption they were perfect for this project. I only needed to buy extra controller cards for the extra harddrives everything else was onboard (NIC/GFX).

This project is really cool and wouldn’t be a bad replacement for my own personal server farm