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Earl M.

Earl M.

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Nice

Tripp Lite 12U Wall-Mount Rack Enclosure Cabinet, Hinged Back, Server-Depth (SRW12US33)
Tripp Lite 12U Wall-Mount Rack Enclosure Cabinet, Hinged Back, Server-Depth (SRW12US33)

Pros: Excellent build quality, solid construction. All the hinges are smooth, and and all the locking mechanisms are constructed well. Deep enough to fit standard length server units and have room for cabling. The removable panels and hinged rear hatch make setup and maintenance a breeze. This design deserves a 6th egg, +1 Tripp Lite, i will defiantly purchase more of these when needed.

Cons: Since this unit is meant to be mounted outside the server room more fan mounts would be nice. Also, this unit is installed in a dusty area and filter options for the mesh would have been nice. I was able to take filters out of some broken AC units and attach them over the mesh with strip magnets.

Overall Review: Best wall rack design i have ever encountered, easy to access, and the cons are just ideas to make it even better.

11/11/2013

Good Quility

LINKSKEY 6 ft. 3-in-1 USB PS/2 KVM Combo Cable C-KVM-SC6
LINKSKEY 6 ft. 3-in-1 USB PS/2 KVM Combo Cable C-KVM-SC6

Pros: Part combo'd with the LINKSKEY LKV-7316 16 Port Rackmount USB + PS/2 KVM Switch. These are perfect length for slightly above waist level placement on a 42u rack to reach all the bottom units longer cables required to reach verry top of rack equiptment.

Cons: None what so ever. This is a good one.

Overall Review: Bleh Bleh Bleh, newegg requires this field to be filled with text.

Solid workstations

ASUS Desktop PC P8H61E (BP6320-I53470163B ) Intel Core i5-3470 8GB DDR3 1TB HDD Intel HD Graphics 2500 Windows 7 Professional 64-Bit
ASUS Desktop PC P8H61E (BP6320-I53470163B ) Intel Core i5-3470 8GB DDR3 1TB HDD Intel HD Graphics 2500 Windows 7 Professional 64-Bit

Pros: Nice form factor, good quality on the peripherals, and components, glad it was still available with Win7 and not win8. I have these boxes configured to run XP-Mode for legacy software, and they operate flawlessly (and if you know anything about XP-Mode that is no easy feat), all around solid machine. Com ports(Yay), comes with a nice lightweight Asus Mouse pad, Packaged well, also the asus utilities are great for troubleshooting and monitoring these systems, as well as managing driver updates without bloating or slowing down the system (Integrates nicely).

Cons: OS install has a very major flaw, that was an semi easy fix. I hooked 5 up to a kvm switch on a workbench, to configure all the boxes at the same time. Powered all of them on at the same time but only box 1 recognized the Keyboard and mouse and the rest did not and a restart did not reconize the peripherials or ps2 KB/Mouse. So to fix this it required a recovery boot pre install to restore the system boot option, one at a time that amounted to 4 extra hours per box just to get back to the install process. As well as a separate keyboard mouse and monitor per box, At which point i had to hook up 1 kb/mouse per box to run the installs. other than that they run great and install/configuration was a breeze. Also the vertical stand foot pegs are very low quality and awkward, as well as very hard to keep in place because they free-float. plan on horizontal placement. Has built in Bing and AV bloatware that you are forced to install to continue with the OS install but they are easily removed, post OS install.

Overall Review: I would recommend these to anyone looking for a solid workstation especially if XP Mode is something you are looking at implementing into your infrastructure.

patch panels are not all the same.

TRENDnet TC-P16C6 16-Port Cat.6 Patch Panel
TRENDnet TC-P16C6 16-Port Cat.6 Patch Panel

Pros: Cat 6, solid materials and construction, good cable management tie-downs that are properly placed, high quality mounting hardware included. It also has just the right amount of packaging material to keep it safe and not be overkill, so many times i have ordered patch panels that come in a box 20 times their size with 70% + of the packages weight being the bubble wrap that is included, this one is in a small box and packaged well. No attenuation issues Design features I found notable: has a good lip for the cutter edge of the punch down tool to cut off the excess cable. the pcb/channel is mounted well, not able to wiggle at all. adequately sized labeling space for the ports, large enough to write in or place a sticker and maintain separation of the ports without overlapping (you get to keep the black line to separate the ports out that is a personal pet peeve of mine when these are to small).

Cons: none at all, this is a good one.

Overall Review: I would recommend this product to anyone looking for it.

11/11/2013

It's a switch

TP-Link 16 Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch | Plug and Play | Sturdy Metal w/ Shielded Ports | Rackmount | Fanless | Limited Lifetime Protection | Unmanaged (TL-SG1016)
TP-Link 16 Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch | Plug and Play | Sturdy Metal w/ Shielded Ports | Rackmount | Fanless | Limited Lifetime Protection | Unmanaged (TL-SG1016)

Pros: 16 ports, and unmanaged, does its job, no issues, plugged it in and it worked. No latency issues, reboots quickly on power down, fans produce good airflow.

Cons: none, so far. i have only had it in place for a week so only enough time to establish a baseline, everything looks good.

Overall Review: goo price for the speed, solid buy.

11/11/2013

Solid KVM

LINKSKEY LKV-7316 16 Port Rackmount USB + PS/2 KVM Switch
LINKSKEY LKV-7316 16 Port Rackmount USB + PS/2 KVM Switch

Pros: Good indicator lights, solid construction, both physical and keystroke switching options. All hardware included for mounting. The cables are sold separately so you can specialize them per server unit (exe: ps2 or USB connections)

Cons: none. lkadhf;jahgf;jhaf;gjh ah h g o hafgoh ah asgdhpo ahfg oha fgoh oahgoashg ohagohafg;l iashgoahgjhgf aohga;gjhg <<< added all that because i couldn't just write none, it required a longer review to continue

Overall Review: Great buy, highly recommend. again>>> lkasdflkgsagfiasgd asdkgfjh agjkhasg asgahs g;ha sgjghpurg fh agjhag uguh asgha;rgh afgh a;hg;rhg fsgh

11/11/2013