Awesome Tips Server Racks Cost Too Much – Buy or DIY?
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Have you ever found something online and thought “I could totally make that”? That’s exactly what we said when we went shopping for racks for our home lab and music gear! But instead of starting from scratch, we’re putting our own spin on a beloved geeky DIY project. After all, the less money we spend on our racks, the more we have left over for new gear!
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:10 The Rules
1:34 What are we building?
2:39 What’s the plan?
4:37 It’s what’s inside that counts…
5:08 Round 2
7:07 One More Try
9:43 The Linus Test
14:25 Credits
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so not counting the lack and the time that took ? also Justins time is free ? :p
I'm all DIY.
Been wanting to build a server rack for years… A set of vertical rails being like $20 in comparison to a whole rack being like $1k is ridiculous
I always say that my time is free because I enjoyed spending it on a project, Moog from MightCarMods always says this when they're modding cars, "the cost of labour is 0 because I love doing this stuff" and I think thats a neat way of looking at it
Why do you need to pay yourself to create yourself a rack?
As is usually the case, no one ever factors in the cost of the tools needed to carry out the task. In my situation it would be far easier to shop around and find an affordable pre-built rack.
I thought we were getting some nokogiri action, but I was wrong☹
Fun story:
Bought a used 27U rack. Great quality, thick steel, on wheals. It was around 50$ and the guy even delivered it.
They where going out of business or something and needed to get rid of it fast.
The only downside is that it misses back wall and front door.
Here's the kicker:
Inside of the rack I have found a disassembled smaller networking cabinet. It was brand new. I have sold it for about 120$.
So I even made money after all of this.
There were also a couple of ad displays for ~600$ each but they were dead 🙁
Love this video
Nice
Charging yourself for your time is flawed. For tasks you don't want to do and you have a busy schedule, then yes – charge for your time. If you have spare time and/or enjoy doing it, then you can't factor in your time.
And then + wood working equipment for thousands of dollars.
Wow – I got all of these variants of Lack-Racks and followed exactly the same evolution path …. but in the end I got a decent rack for my homelab
this is my Jam. More pls 🙂
Gimme that Roland d -110!
I dont think counting time spend with an hourly wage is fair, you not gonna do this if you dont like diy and the fast majority of people aren't randomly able to work extra hours instead of building their own server rack,
would be soooo nice if they but Metric units also in the vid. 95% of all Humans use that.
The first iteration of Lack actually had solid legs! They introduced the hollow ones when wood got more expensive.
just epoxy the metal guards onto the hollow legs…
Out of curiosity, was wondering if extruded aluminum rails were considered? I think the price might be comparable and allow for a bit more modularity.
Oh I like this series.
what if you only got a manual screwdriver, how much extra for tools (+time if using a manual saw etc)
Facebook market place always has heaps of professional racks going cheap!
I think it's better to just use 2 by 4 iron bar(just like your v3 iron bar but at the wood stand size) to replace the front wood bar, it may cost a bit more but I think it would last a lot longer.
For home users, it's worth checking out 10" racks, they're becoming the standard for home/soho use and you can get mounting options for most hardware now be it a shelf with screw in or zip ties for your regular modem/routers etc or rack mount ears for smaller desk based switches. and there is a full host of patch panels etc like you'd expect. GeeekPi and Tecmojo seem to be really popular for them here in the UK, easily accessible via amazon too.
More #JREAMTEAM please 😆😆
Wood is expensive even in Canada? O boi that doesn’t sound good for the rest of us.
Also 30$ wage is cutting it short, wouln’t something like 40$ be a minimum for somebody to pay their taxes, social security, insurances and all other costs?
More Jordan videos please. Great host.
Aside from the comments suggesting threaded inserts plus bolts, even using pan head or truss head screws would have worked better instead of flat head screws (which have the cone shape under the head).
Charging for your time doesn't really add up with DIY
11:16 Linus in from the top rope with the existential digs
The thumbnail looks like that one meme with Einstein and Tesla
I love BUY or DIY!!!
Goofiest video thumbnail i have ever seen. Did Linus approve this ?😅
The point of DIY is that I'm doing it in my free time as a passion project. My time shouldn't factor in unless it's unreasonably time consuming (3 days, 1 week, depending on projects)
Love it
3:16 is everything ok? You look like you have a gnarly migraine 🤢😅
"Nailed it"… oh god help me 😀
I don’t think you should include paying yourself a wage as part of the calculation. Doing something like this is part of hobby time, not work time. For example, you’re not including set up time for the store-bought rack.
Hourly wage doesnt count. Nobody pays me shit if I work an hour extra at work
Now for the 10" mini racks – buy or 3d print 😉
Clean hard drive version of Anthony
DIY with all the tools a normal consumer doesn't have.
I'm using a similar table (the Walmart version, seems to be constructed identically and similarly-priced) as my server "rack." Although I just set the server and switch on top of the table until I can afford to get an actual rackmount case and rack for it and for my gaming PC. It works and tucks away neatly into my closet (thermals are fine, barely a degree or two difference under load).
Also worth noting that depending on your location – often times companies upgrading equipment literally either give racks away for free or ask $50-$100 for a steel rack. I got one for free from Rite Aid when it went the way of the dinosaurs. It was too tall for my vented closet so I had to do the unthinkable and take an angle grinder to cut the top section off and shorten it. But it came with shelves, and a cool slide out shelf at the bottom that the laser printer was on so you could slide it out and easily replace supplies. Clearly a nation wide company going out of business doesn't always mean you can get free stuff… but it absolutely never hurts to ask… I got a deal on their color laser printer that had a new drum and set of toner with it, a Dell R440 server, a solid Lenovo workstation that now runs my BlueIris operation, and a 24 port 10/100/1000 PoE switch. Only thing they wouldn't let me buy were the dang mini pcs in the pharmacy… Which is beyond stupid because those PCs didn't even have a storage drive they were network booting from the server they DID let me buy. Rite Aid just left them in the building and they still sit. Tried calling the realtor of the building saying I'd handle the ewaste for them but they were not interested… so over a year later the building is still vacant and the computers are still in pharmacy visible from the drive thru. 🙁 and I have the bios master password to make them work and not be ewaste or just scrapped for what little parts are in them. sigh
#JreamTeam
I have to drop in here just to comment on the thumbnail… why are those "server" racks filled with audio equipment?
Also… I diy racks all the time… for audio equipment, because I make custom installs, where the rack is just built in from plywood, and I screw rails to it.
cut the bottoms off the legs, insert wood inside to fill it… now it all looks the same still and has full support to drill in to.