After a year or more of constant changes to the home rack, the wiring started to look ugly and not presentable. If my lab is something I take pride on, then something had to change. Current wiring looked a bit like this: The idea was not only to rework the cables so they’re a bit more presentable, but also to start a color standard for patch cables within the rack itself: ...
As of October 2015 the rack looked like below. But the current state is much different, in a different house, in a corner of the basement, barely picture-worthy… Having the server rack in the garage during winter didn’t let me work on it much, so I started building a room for it in the basement. Bought a couple of dual-pane glass doors, 4ft x 9ft, and then trimmed them so they would fit downstairs and could put some wheels underneath. The idea is to use a rail on both top and bottom, with the doors sitting on the wheels. ...