Rack Enclosure Cabinet Buying Guide
When choosing a rack or enclosure, one important factor to consider is knowing your server rack cooling strategy. The type of rack you choose will depend on the cooling methods used in your environment. Another point to consider would be selecting an appropriately-sized rack. When selecting a rack, you want to be sure it has sufficient internal space to house your current equipment and ensure that you have ample space to accommodate planned future expansion.
What is a Rack?
Racks is frame structures designed to house standard 19" rack-mount equipment-servers, routers, UPS systems, switches, audio/video-regardless of vendor. They provide rack equipment organized, security and cable management, there are two types of racks- closed rack enclosures (also called rack cabinets) and open-frame racks.
Where are Racks used?
- Server rooms
- Data centers
- Aisle Containment
- Audio/video installations
- Closets housing telecommunications equipment
- Industrial environments such as a factory floor
- Office, Education, Public Areas.
What type of rack do you require?
What size of rack do you need?
A rack unit (abbreviated U or RU) is a unit of measure defined as 44.50 millimetres (1.75 in). It is most frequently used as a measurement of the overall height of 19-inch and 23-inch rack frames, as well as the height of equipment that mounts in these frames, whereby the height of the frame or equipment is expressed as multiples of rack units. For example, a typical full-size rack cage is 42U high, while equipment is typically 1U, 2U, 3U, or 4U high.
The rack unit size is based on a standard rack specification as defined in EIA-310.
Who came up with Rack Units?
Rack Units were created by the Electronic Industries Alliance (“EIA”) to help standardize equipment used my telecommunications carriers. The specification is known as EIA-310. Although rack units got a birth in telecom, they are found literally everywhere today due to the proliferation of server and network equipment in businesses and even homes (commonly in theater room gear and dedicated network closets).
Horizontal Spacing
Horizontal spacing of rack units depend on whether or not the holes are drilled and tapped in the rack, versus the use of cage nuts.
Vertical Spacing
Vertical spacing of rack units is defined by EIA-310 as 18 5/16″ or 465.1mm.
Rack Depth
Before you determine what’s the maximum rack depth, you need to know how to mount your equipment- in a floor-standing or wall-mount rack enclosure.
Floor-Standing Rack Depth Designations
Wall-Mount Rack Depth Designations
AZE has range of racks and cabinets:
- Rack Enclosures- Organize and protect telecom equipments in the data centers, server rooms and network closets.
- Wall Mount Racks- House networking equipments safe and mounted to the wall when the floor spaces are limited.
- Open Frame Racks & Brackets-High-performance and value cost to store rackmount equipments in safety IT environment.
About us
From data center to outdoor telecom infrastructure products, AZE has the right product for you. AZE designs and manufactures Server Racks and Cabinets, Outdoor Encosures and Electronic Enclosures, Power Distribution (Basic Rack PDUs and Smart PDUs), KVM Switches and Cable and Connectivity products to globe customers in the market.
Make IT Connected, AZE can support you to make IT happen with affordable cost.
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