Re: Rack-mountable 520 without a rack?

Another option is to look for a local company that is going out of business
and buy their rack. This may sounds callous but it really isn't as the
company is failing regardless. You're taking advantage of the opportunity
not taking advantage of their misery. Besides, the failing company may need
the funds to help pay the last of the employees or other debts.

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Walden H. Leverich
<WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

You can get a Dell rack for $1,000 or so,

Or hit ebay. For several hundred you can pick up a rack.

-Walden

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Burns, Bryan
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 9:00 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Rack-mountable 520 without a rack?

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

-----Original Message-----
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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