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Just buy a rack. You can get a Dell rack for $1,000 or so, which is much less than the IBM spec rack. That's where are 520 is.
Bryan Burns
iSeries Specialist
ECHO, Incorporated
Lake Zurich, Illinois
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of James H. H. Lampert
Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 6:46 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Rack-mountable 520 without a rack?
Because there is a future possibility of shipping our brand new (so far,
hasn't even been powered up since it left the factory) 520 to a
co-location facility, the boss decided to get the rack-mountable version
(because it's cheaper to co-locate a rack-mountable box).
But without a rack. (Racks are expensive.) And the only racks we have in
the building are just 2-post open-frame racks, for our communications
gear and our failover switch. Even if there were sufficient space behind
to support the new box (which there isn't), it wouldn't be stable.
At the moment, the new box is sitting, naked, atop the carcass of our 200.
Anybody here had any experience running rack-mountable 520s without the
rack?
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