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My cpu is running on 15 degrees!

So… very heavy rosewill L4500U, fully loaded with 15 HDDs is apparently very heavy.

Very heavy enough to destroy the istarUSA rails that I got for it. These rails always lead to me having to push and pull to be able to pull the chassis out, so i hated them anyways. The problem is that the official rosewill ones suck, and i don’t know what rails you can use.

I accidentally pushed down for one second on the end while trying to remove the top cover… and now i have bearing balls everywhere in my closed rack. Life is good! Any suggestions on better rails?

  • SpencerXZXBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’ve seen some bad rails and some very good ones. The SuperMicro 4U sliding rails are built like a tank. In the past I’ve stacked 3 loaded 4U chassis on top of a server with SuperMicro rails and it held it like a champ. Don’t worry, I installed rails in them eventually. Having them stacked made it impossible to service any of them but the top one. The Silverstone rails I have are “OK” but not great. I would trust them not to just break but I’m not going to be server stacking.

    • CoderStoneOPBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      agreed, the ones holding my CSE846 are SO good, if only they were rosewill compatible.