I now hate cable management.

[Lord Nicoll]

Good god never buy a U1 rack server that isn't cable managed well from the factory. No offense HPE but its taken well over two hours to get this far. I hate this kind of cable management, it doesn't even look that good, this is a nightmare. So tiny, so many cables, so little room.

[NumLock21]

Your zip ties is suppose to be RGB not RGBBW (red, green, blue, black, white)

 

[Guest]

Why not drill some holes, to run the cables below the rack? Or will that cause problems...

[ARikozuM]

2 minutes ago, Dutch-stoner said:

Why not drill some holes, to run the cables below the rack? Or will that cause problems...

It's a U1 chassis. At most he has about 0mm under the bottom. Unless you mean straight through the chassis.

[Lord Nicoll]

6 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

Your zip ties is suppose to be RGB not RGBBW (red, green, blue, black, white)

 

I was colour coding them (Red for SAS, yellow for fans, buttons/inicators, green for USB, blue for PSU/power) but I ran out of blue ones. 

[xgn]

This is cables you're not even going to see. I never understood why people make a big deal out of that. It looks good enough already in my opinion.

[johnny5c]

Cable management is a PITA in a 1U case but my CPU temp dropped 5° after I did mine.

[Guest]

@ARikozuM   

Don't know much about servers and/or U1 chassis things. But if he only has got the rack, he might be able to add some spacers @ the bottom...

[Lord Nicoll]

5 minutes ago, Dutch-stoner said:

Why not drill some holes, to run the cables below the rack? Or will that cause problems...

That isn't really an option, the server wouldn't sit level, would fuck it up in the rack and possible let air out and impact cooling.

[Lord Nicoll]

12 minutes ago, xgn said:

This is cables you're not even going to see. I never understood why people make a big deal out of that. It looks good enough already in my opinion.

the fans are tiny and the noise from the cables flapping in the air was annoying.

It also allowed dust to build up in the corners and under them.

[ARikozuM]

2 minutes ago, Lord Nicoll said:

the fans are tiny and the noise from the cables flapping in the air was annoying.

It also allowed dust to build up in the corners and under them.

If it helps I usually use extensions to run cables along the sides rather than next to the fans.

[Lord Nicoll]

well, fuck, the server is claiming a fan is missing or failed (maybe the connector got knocked loose) BUT FUCK, THE FANS WENT EVEN LOUDER THAN WHILE ON POST, I THOUGHT THAT WAS 100% BUT IT ISN'T, FAIL SAFE MODE IS EVEN LOUDER! Oh the irony. 

[Lord Nicoll]

I went and recorded the server booting, and the missing fan response, which was nothing short of ear pounding, The video is still processing, it'll be a minute or two more, actually I'll wait until it's live to hit submit. 

 

[ARikozuM]

It sounds wonderful with 5.1 speaker fill. Did you throw a Yu-gi-oh card over the edge?

[Lord Nicoll]

Just now, ARikozuM said:

It sounds wonderful with 5.1 speaker fill. Did you throw a Yu-gi-oh card over the edge?

No, it was some label off a decoration for spooky night. That was to show the amount of air moving through this thing. 

[Lord Nicoll]

Found the error, one of the tried up loops had gotten into the fan and blocked the counter rotating rotor, each fan unit has two fans that spin opposite to each other. 

[SpaceGhostC2C]

If you are not satisfied with it, you don't want cable management: you want invisible cables  

[Lord Nicoll]

2 hours ago, SpaceGhostC2C said:

If you are not satisfied with it, you don't want cable management: you want invisible cables  

I am actually really happy with how it looks now, it was just AMAZINGLY harder than even a cheapy case. 

[AlienALX]

Jesus christ I hope I can still make babies.