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How to rack a Mini.

I recently tried to rack 4 Mac Minis that we’re using for performance QA testing. Nice boxes, not really meant to be rack mounted, but in a seismic area like this, I wanted to make sure they didn’t move around much.

Front:

Mac Mini Rack - Front
Rear:

Mac Mini Rack - Back

Comments closed — Trackbacks closed RSS 2.0 feed for these comments This entry (permalink) was posted on Monday, April 23, 2007, at 1:49 pm by mrz. Filed in Mozilla.

3 Comments

  1. dria

    Clearly Apple needs to sell little teeny tiny racks.

    Posted on 23-Apr-07 at 5:15 pm | Permalink
  2. mconnor

    The other option is a lot of shelves…. http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1955/1163/1600/MacMinisView1.jpg

    Posted on 23-Apr-07 at 5:59 pm | Permalink
  3. mrz

    The bottom of these have friction pads which prevent slippage and probably something for vibration.

    I originally started to mount them vertical but they wouldn’t stay put and I didn’t have any rubber feet or anything like that nearby.

    These guys (http://www.macminicolo.net/facility.html) seem to have fashined their own system.

    Posted on 23-Apr-07 at 7:03 pm | Permalink

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