Helping a guy ...

[melloa]

Well ... helping a guy that wants to consolidate all his QNAPS HDDs on a FreeNAS. He is getting a Supermicro 3U X9DRI-LN4F+ 16 Bay 2x Xeon 8 Core CPU LSI SAS2 SATA SSD FREENAS for that http://www.ebay.com/itm/152471120708 and is planning to mount on a vertical rack  .

https://www.racksolutions.com/wall-mount-rack.html?ififorce=us

I can see his server been decapitated, the front face attached to the rack and the rest of the chassis down to the floor...

[Edd Noman]

That could work depending on the case he is planing to use, but if he have to purchase everything it would not been my first choise

[melloa]

The case is the supermicro chassis with 20+ hotswap on my post. My other question to him was how many people to lift that and lower into the rack? 

[Edd Noman]

That server will not fit properly in that rack, and you would have to floor mount it for it not to fall of the wall

[Fmslick]

That server will not fit properly in that rack, and you would have to floor mount it for it not to fall of the wall

NO!!! That is all wrong about the "floor mount it" part lol there would be no support for the back end of the chassis, that is a patch panel rack (more or less).

I worked at Softlayer for some time and all they run is Supermicro servers, Supermicro 3U server chassis would need rails due to the weight of the chassis let a lone the drives and MOBO, or you could get away with a 2-post server rack ( something like this https://www.racksolutions.com/relay-racks.html ) and some shelves for it but, the rack would need to be mounted down and the server can still slide around...

When picking a rack you should tell this guy to keep this in-mind, will he be adding more to the rack latter and will the rack have networking on it + the rack should ALWAYS support the servers that are going in it.

Here is what I would get or at lest something like this.
Server:
Supermicro 3U server chassis
Height: 5.2" (132 mm)
Width: 17.2" (437 mm)
Depth: 25.5" (647 mm)
Gross Weight: 52 lbs (23.59 kg)
Packaging (W x H x L): 26.6" (676 mm) x 13" (330 mm) x 39.9" (1013 mm)
http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/3U/836/SC836E16-R1200B

Rack
iStarUSA WN1510
Weight Capacity: 2200 lbs.
Width: Post-to-post:17.75"::Hole-to-hole:18.5"
Height: 27.25"
Depth: 34.25" max
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816215213

[melloa]

Guess what? He is installing on a closet 2 ft deep (60 cm). No space, so the brilliant solution. I'm sure wont'work.

[Fmslick]

Guess what? He is installing on a closet 2 ft deep (60 cm). No space, so the brilliant solution. I'm sure wont'work.

Really? Alright that info would have been nice in the first post!

It's cool I got one more for ya! 
Product dimensions
Length: 55cm (21 5/8 ")
Width: 55cm (21 5/8 ")
Height: 45cm (17 3/4 ")
Almost 9U of rack space

https://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/LackRack