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  Finding a rack for my rack-mounted hard drives

  Posted by Phillip Harvey on November 17, 2014 at 8:03 pm

  Hello Creative Cow,

  I’ve recently assembled six LaCie 48TB Rack-mounted hard drives. The boxes contained all the materials needed to mount the drives inside of a rack of some kind, but it doesn’t provide any recommendations beyond that point (and obviously doesn’t include a rack.)

  My research so far today has made me more hesitant to order something, as it doesn’t seem like a subject that has a lot of attention. Before proceeding I would love to hear from somebody who has done this before!

  Here is a link where you can find the exact specifications of the hard drive arrays that I’m working with:
  https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1067853-REG/lacie_9000476u_48tb_8big_thunderbolt_2.html

  The dimensions of the unit are:

  Dimensions (WxHxD) 18.9 x 30.4 x 1.7″ / 477 x 772 x 44 mm

  It seems like my options are to buy very simple rails, which seem to come in pairs, and that would give me the most flexibility as far as dimensions are concerned.

  I would love to have some kind of cabinet that has wheels on it, however, and then I am faced with the situation of finding a setup that fits the correct dimensions. One unit that I’m looking at – and it would be nice to find something similar – is:
  https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/330997-REG/Samson_SASRK16_Steel_Studio_Rack_Stand.html

  Any advice on the situation would be awesome! Thanks in advance. I will continue researching as well.

  Phillip Harvey replied 11 years, 9 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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