I’ve seen so many 10" servers that look amazing from the front and very polished, but then having a rats nest of cables and a mess at the back.

After 62 iterations and many 3D prints, blood, sweat, profanity and tears. I my design and implementation is finally done. image

This is Before: image

And the After: image
The ducky adds 200MHz

The front of my mini-rack is actually still somewhat of a mess, I thought I’d focus on the back first.

I’ve published it in excruciating detail on my GitHub Leave a Star if you like what you see

  • Legion739@piefed.zipOPEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    You’re explaining scenarios where you incorrectly use my setup.

    You can wire the switches so that if switched off it only kills power to that server and nothing else in the chain. You then basically have this, but modular:
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    Yea if you rip out a cord that you shouldn’t you’re going to lose power, that is true of any power strip.

    This has more components, so more things can fail, I will give you that, but that’s unlikely and for me at least, worth the trade off in making it modular.

    If the above picture was powering your servers, and you wanted to add a 7th plug, you’d have to unplug everything and buy a power adapter with more sockets, and deal with the rats nest of cables that follows, or add another of these that might have the same problem in the future.