Server rack

[ted tech]

Hey guys, does anyone know what kind of rails Linus uses in his one video.  I remember they snapped in place, instead of screwing them in.

[Aelita Sophie]

4 minutes ago, ted tech said:

Hey guys, does anyone know what kind of rails Linus uses in his one video.  I remember they snapped in place, instead of screwing them in.

I would like to know as well. My current rails are very inconvenient to use.

[Bouzoo]

I'm sure he mentioned it in some video, and he is quite talkative when it comes to server stuff so just might ask him. @LinusTech 

[ted tech]

@LinusTech

[WkdPaul]

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[scottyseng]

1 hour ago, ted tech said:

Hey guys, does anyone know what kind of rails Linus uses in his one video.  I remember they snapped in place, instead of screwing them in.

Usually server have rails made specifically for them by the manufacturer. If the company has it, they're called quick mount rails. For example, my SuperMicro server has them, but my Eaton UPS doesn't (It doesn't have a sliding rail though).

 

Just note that server rails tend to cost a lot....$80 per set of rails for my SuperMicro server...

[Blake]

On 2/28/2017 at 0:41 AM, ted tech said:

Hey guys, does anyone know what kind of rails Linus uses in his one video.  I remember they snapped in place, instead of screwing them in.

99% of the time they are case specific. All my HP gear is the tool-less rails, which are great. I know alot of other OEM stuff is also similar.

 

[Erkel]

 

On 2/28/2017 at 5:31 AM, scottyseng said:

Usually server have rails made specifically for them by the manufacturer. If the company has it, they're called quick mount rails. For example, my SuperMicro server has them, but my Eaton UPS doesn't (It doesn't have a sliding rail though).

 

Just note that server rails tend to cost a lot....$80 per set of rails for my SuperMicro server...

As above,  All the tier one manufacturers have them, except in the case of UPS's where the weights are too high, so need to be bolted in instead.

 

The second tier manufacturers either have cheap screw in rails, or the trend now if they an't going for the cheap and nasty market is to simply use Supermicro rails on their servers, (Why re-invent the wheel)

[scottyseng]

48 minutes ago, Erkel said:

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Ah, thanks for clearing up why the Eaton UPS I have uses bolted rails. It does make since because my UPS is hands down the heaviest thing on my rack.

 

I can't blame them, the first time I bought rails for my server chassis (Never owned a server rack before), I was wondering why the rails were pretty expensive...well, they're super heavy weight (At least compared to the usual ones we use for cabinets).

[Erkel]

15 minutes ago, scottyseng said:

Ah, thanks for clearing up why the Eaton UPS I have uses bolted rails. It does make since because my UPS is

hands down the heaviest thing on my rack.

If you look at the APC rails for example, the nuts that you screw into are in the rails themselfs, so the weight is directly coupled from the rail to the rack,  Thus avoiding the issue of having cage nuts bearing the weight.   With quick mount rails you generally rely on small metal tabs to support the weight, or with screw in type typically case nuts, both of which are not suitable when talking about heavy UPS's (~250KG UPS at work that was originally rack mounted in a previously life.)