Recent content by carpe_noctem

Ok, so I would like to make an NAS (FreeBSD, FreeNAS, or something similar due to interoperability needs such as CIFS/NFS/rsync), and am looking for advice and guidance on the best way forward. Backplane: BPN-SAS-846EL1 HDD's: WDC WD3000FYYZ (Enterprise 3TB SATA) (right now only have 10, if I...

Sorry for the delay... got busy putting some other systems together. Here is a pic so you can see what I am talking about. and here is a very crude text explanation b=bracket R=rails S=server s=screw -------------- ........|bSs ......b|Rs ........| ......b|Rs ........|bSs

Sorry that last pic is not very clear, the rails themselves actually are mounted correctly, but because the screws I have can't bridge that gap I put the bracket for securing the racked device (server) between there. There are four holes on the server flange. (but yes the second the last picture...

Greetings fellow sysadmins and tinkerers. I have sliding rail mounts for some supermicro servers that are going in a tripp-lite 48u cabinet. The problem is that I'm not sure about the correct way to mount the rails...I mounted one server before realizing that there was a gap between the server...