What a home made server rack should look like

[Cassidy1982]

 

so this is my solution then buying 2 racks for my home office. And yes I made it took about a week from start to finish. plus 3 days to cable manage the rack.

[GuiltySpark_]

That's effin beautiful. 

 

I think we're going to need an outline of what's all going on there.

[IkeaGnome]

The more you look at it the more amazing it gets.

That PS3 must feel like a king in their throne in there.

[BiotechBen]

Cherry or oak poly stain?

[Cassidy1982]

2 hours ago, Cassidy1982 said:

 

so this is my solution then buying 2 racks for my home office. And yes I made it took about a week from start to finish. plus 3 days to cable manage the rack.

Starting at the top left. 
main network switch netgear gs748tp

surveillance switch netgear gs724tp

10g switch netgear xs712t

2 battery backup for the switch and modem

a hdmi matrix 4x4

first silverstone case is a retro gaming pc running batocera 

next is media pc for playing video 

next is a windows 10 pc for my Surveillance

A truenas file server

and last of the left side is a plex server 

 

the right side 

a pfsense router

2 pioneer receivers one for video and the other is for audio 

2 8 port kvm

a pentium III running windows 98

a pentium 4 running windows 2000/ me

lga775 running windows xp 

lga1156 running windows vista

and a future spot for a windows 7 pc

[Cassidy1982]

1 hour ago, BiotechBen said:

Cherry or oak poly stain?

The vented panels are oak veneer with a clear coat and the rest is hemlock with a clear coat. 

[thrasher_565]

im guessing your using some sort of kvm? im trying to do something simmer  to that having a hard time thow...

[Cassidy1982]

6 hours ago, thrasher_565 said:

im guessing your using some sort of kvm? im trying to do something simmer  to that having a hard time thow...

I’m using 2 8 port kvm’s the second one is connected to a input of the first one and the kvm is all vga usb 2 and 3.5mm audio. I need adapter to switch over to hdmi. 

[thrasher_565]

44 minutes ago, Cassidy1982 said:

I’m using 2 8 port kvm’s the second one is connected to a input of the first one and the kvm is all vga usb 2 and 3.5mm audio. I need adapter to switch over to hdmi. 

im guessing your systems are older i guess when you start adding in hdmi and dispalyport and want like 144p+ or 4k it gets even more interesting i guess well as a keyboarded and mouse and audio as well... i was trying to do it automatically witch is costly but i might need 2 systems. the goal was 4 pcs hooked up to attest one of the monitors but because i have a mechanical keyboard  and alot of kvms dont have usb 3.0 and some macros dont work with it makes it hard and usb 3.0 switches are also poor quality. then there the problem having cable longer then 10 feet total and still keeping 144p + on the monitor...

 

for now i think i need 2 keyboard and mouse one for main pc and another keyboard and mouse for the other pcs and have one monitor at 170hrz and the other at 144hrz or lower had use that to switch to the other pcs

 

fun times... anyway nice build ill hope to have cable looking like that one day...

Edited July 13, 2022 by thrasher_565