[Beowulf] [EXTERNAL] server lift

[Gregory Matthews]

+1 for that SL-350X. Its the business.

G

On 25/10/2021 16:30, Prentice Bisbal via Beowulf wrote:
> But if you had the lift mechanism to the back instead of the side, it 
> wouldn't fit down that narrow aisle in the first place. This is really 
> the most space-efficient design. The only way you could have the crank 
> on the same side as the server, would be to have the crank at a height 
> where it would be higher than the highest server slot in your rack, 
> would create other practical issues.
> 
> They way this lift is designed, if the  lift can't fit down the aisle, 
> the chances are that the server is too long to fit between the racks, too.
> 
> Prentice
> 
> On 10/22/21 1:24 PM, David Mathog wrote:
>> On Thu, 21 Oct 2021 15:00:22 -0400 Prentice Bisbal wrote:
>>
>> > We have one of these where I work:
>> >
>> > https://serverlift.com/data-center-lifts/sl-350x/
>>
>> Wish I had had something like that.
>>
>> The only downside to that unit I can see is that the crank is on the 
>> opposite side of the unit from where the lifted computer would be.  In 
>> a narrow aisle situation a person working alone would have to walk all 
>> the way around to reach the other side to install/remove the server 
>> after having set the height.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> David Mathog
>>
>>
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