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Hey guys.

I am thinking about organizing the clutter in my home office and put my server, IoT , Storage and routing equipment on a small rack/server cabinet. Right now everything is dispersed through several areas of my home office and I want to tidy up a notch.

I have looked into the Startech 9U rack (RK960CP) to host the following equipment which I think should be enough:

• HP Elitedesk 800G2 (server specs in case of interest are: i5 6500, 32GB DDR4, GT730, 1TB SSD, 2 TB HDD, Proxmox Hypervisor);

• Turris Omnia (with OpenWRT atm)

• Synology DS220J

• Iomega IX2

• UPS from salicru

• Possibly a raspberri Pi (thinking of getting one)

• Ikea tradfri bridge

• Small TP Link 8 port managed switch

In the future I might replace the Turris with a Unifi setup (Dreamachine Pro and a couple APs) but I guess the server rack can accommodate it no problem.

The only problem with the Startech unit is its price, around 550€ (in Europe). I would still need to add up shelves which are on the expensive side as well. Thus it is an overkill for what I use it for. Is there a cheaper alternative? What are you guys using/adapting?

Cheers