RE: Rack-mount cases

["Nikola Kasic" <nikola@xxxxxxx>]

Paul,
This is where I bought mine from: http://www.acmetech.co.uk/
They are in Park Royal (West London), 10 min drive from me. They have
good choice and are not too expensive because they are branch office of
Taiwanese (or somwhere in that region - I forgot which one) company.
The other resellers are buying from them.
You can't buy on-line, and there are no prices on web site, but if you
give them a ring they will tell you what the prices are.
I think that full size PCI cards will not fit in 3u case, without raiser
card, and that you'll need 4 u, but I might be wrong here.
How many PCI cards you have?
Some riser cards can hold 2 PCI cards.

Nik

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Gordon [mailto:paul_gordon@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 02 July 2003 10:31
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Rack-mount cases


Insipred as I was by Nik's rather nice looking 1U rack case, and becasue
I'v
now got a decent rack, - also thanks to Nik, (fun & games getting it
into a
Peugeot 406, but let's not go into that eh!), I now feel inclined to
convert
one or more of my existing server PC's into rackmount cases, so I am on
the
search for a source of a decent range of said cases.

First point to note:- I'm not looking to necessarily rebuild these
machines
onto new motherboards etc. - I merely at this stage wish to move 1 of
them
"as is" into a new rack case, - therefore I need one which can
acommodate a
standard ATX motherboard, and full height PCI cards etc. So I guess that

means at least a 3U case?

Later on (like in about 3 months), I do plan to rebuild one or two of
them,
but again I would like to re-use the existing (perfectly good) hardware
where possible, so again I'm not terribly interested in going down the
mini-ITX route at this time... (that may come later for a new kitchen
PC)....

suggestions?

Paul G.

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