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- Mar 13, 2006
Ok so most of us here have multiple machines, does anyone go for Form over function and just use rackmount cases. This is assuming that many of your machines are all located in the same general area (I have 3 currently surrounding me).
Admittedly you cant show off your case as easily, and modding it is confined mostly to the front of the case but still.
Reason Behind this is pretty simple. Typical tower cases usually come in a variety of sizes and shapes, if you have more then one computer you usally have to stack them haphazardly or side by side. With the three I have now, I either lose a lot of desk space or I lose floor space under my desk. I am debating picking up a few 4-6U racks and just mounting the HW in them instead. Roughly a 22" footprint and depending on size you only loose basically a 24-30" space (not using a full rack) instead of a 22"x10" foot print per machine.
This make sense at all?
Admittedly you cant show off your case as easily, and modding it is confined mostly to the front of the case but still.
Reason Behind this is pretty simple. Typical tower cases usually come in a variety of sizes and shapes, if you have more then one computer you usally have to stack them haphazardly or side by side. With the three I have now, I either lose a lot of desk space or I lose floor space under my desk. I am debating picking up a few 4-6U racks and just mounting the HW in them instead. Roughly a 22" footprint and depending on size you only loose basically a 24-30" space (not using a full rack) instead of a 22"x10" foot print per machine.
This make sense at all?