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Saturday, January 30, 2010

The Lack rack hack

This LackRack hack is from the eth0 community in the Netherlands. They have an interesting hack to house a modular datacentre, sneakily under a Lack side table. Now, if only there's a solution for all those wires!





"The LackRack is the ultimate, low-cost, high shinyness solution for your modular datacenter-in-the-living-room. Featuring the Lack (side table) from Ikea, the LackRack is an easy-to-implement, exact-fitdatacenter building block. It's a little known fact that we have seen Google engineers tinker with Lack tables since way back in 2009.

This one is different. During our last LAN 'party' (eth0:2010 Winter) we've used the Lack table as a 19" rack you commonly find in data centers. We call it the LackRack and you can find more info on it on our
wiki page and at http://lackrack.org."
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12 comments:

  1. Pero bueno!!! como molaaaaa....

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  2. Also a lot of music studio equipment use 19" racks so it would work just as well for your home studio I guess.

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  3. Do LACK tables have hollow legs? It might be possble to thread the cables down them...

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  4. I presume this wouldn't be able to hold much weight? Server equipment is usually pretty heavy

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  5. haha. this looks ghetto

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  6. I don't think I would trust a 7 dollar table to hold thousands worth of server equipment.

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  7. Some network (e.g. switches and routers) equipment is usually a lot lighter than servers. Usually the network products targeting the Workgroup market are reasonably light in mass.

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  8. The table is already on the package, that is cool because I knew that for such a data center or server to be built, the one that will be use are network rack. This seems to be nice especially at home.

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  10. It really look hidden and really cool , a lot of stuffs must be masked so wont occupy so many space.

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  11. It really look hidden and really cool , a lot of stuffs must be masked so wont occupy so many space.

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  12. Kim, you need to check with your state regarding specific rules for filing. If you are registered as a business and you sell goods you will also need a sales tax form filed for your state. That makes you legitimate, and also requires you to pay taxes...so make sure you are collecting them too!

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