In January I picked up a Dell R710 on the cheap to use for my homelab endeavors (a VM on which is hosting this site).  Well now that I had a rackmount server, that meant I had no choice but to find a rack.  However, there was no way I was going to spend hundreds of dollars on a rack for the one or two pieces of rackmountable gear that I currently own, especially considering they’re already out of the way in the furnace room.  So I did what any cheap person would do, and set up Craigslist alerts to watch for a rack for sale, and man did I score big with this one.  I found a 24U Dell rack with doors and cable management hooks, on casters.  I really don’t need 42U and don’t want 42U given that this is going in my basement.

That 24 port Netgear will get mounted as soon as I get some screws (fortunately there were already cage nuts in the rack).  As well the file server down and to the left will get rebuilt in a 4U rackmount once I get the chance (and I can finally get rid of that ancient full ATX Antech case).  Don’t mind the orange light on the R710… one of the PSUs is unplugged.

Some day soon I’ll lay out my exact network setup.