So I have a pile of computers on my desk. Seven in total, and that presents some concerns regarding the piling of the hardware on my desk. Some of the machines are not really that big, one’s a Dell Mini PC that’s not much bigger than a decent sized paperback book, however the storage server is a full size tower stuffed full of hard disks that takes up a lot of space under the desk.
Currently I’m trying to figure out better ways to keep these things organized and I’m coming up a bit blank.
The Dell Mini PC is easy enough, that just gets hung from the bottom of the desk in a 3d printed bracket. The others though are all just large enough that I can’t really rely on something 3d printed to keep them in place.
Now a racked based solution seems like a obvious way to go, however I had a 1/2 rack in the house for many years and honestly it was more of a hassle than it was really worth for what I was doing. I’m into the machines frequently and unless I’m willing to spend a fair bit of coin on rack mountable hardware it’s just a fancy cabinet that’s a pain in the ass to move things in and out of.
I’m kind of eyeing some proper under desk mounts for a couple of machines, those are getting to a point where they are actually fairly inexpensive but all I’m getting from that is keeping the computer off the floor and away from the carpet and I’m not sure that it’s worth the money just to keep from having to clean the machines every couple of months or so.