Short ATA Racks
Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 4:35 pm
I just thought I'd mention some great little tools when both sides of a rack are in tight quarters.
The 360 degree 10" danglers for hooking up to a 1U SurgeX, JuiceGoose or Furman are crucial.
And coming from the rack mounted instruments or effects the 90 degree re-directors are sweet.
The inside dimensions are 20" from rail to rail, and both sides, as well as the 13U Slant top are packed and pretty.
Mid Atlantic makes a custom 10U LCD Chassis for any LCD you want. I like the brand new Dell 17"{ for 60 bucks from ebay.
I'll show the rig as soon as my Supermicro 1U is returned.
It's the 4th time I rebuilt this as motherboards and SSD combinations seem to be problematic, the winning combination was a pair of Vertex 4s and the good old no frill MSI-Z77A-GD65. After 4 x BIOS updates it is the most stable Ivy Bridge out there that I have bought.
I went through the Asus, Intel, Gigabyte and once again have found that MSI really fixes problmes quickly.
OCZ has had 3 x updates to the Vertex 4's so while I usually don't jump on new products I really wanted this, and figured it would take a while to get everything right, but newegg takes anything back within 30 days, and they are a most honorable distributor.
Initial tests show that the Kontakt template of 11.6GB's that use to take 15 minutes to load, now loads in 3 minutes flat with all large heavy articulated instruments....
Ankyu.......
The 360 degree 10" danglers for hooking up to a 1U SurgeX, JuiceGoose or Furman are crucial.
And coming from the rack mounted instruments or effects the 90 degree re-directors are sweet.
The inside dimensions are 20" from rail to rail, and both sides, as well as the 13U Slant top are packed and pretty.
Mid Atlantic makes a custom 10U LCD Chassis for any LCD you want. I like the brand new Dell 17"{ for 60 bucks from ebay.
I'll show the rig as soon as my Supermicro 1U is returned.
It's the 4th time I rebuilt this as motherboards and SSD combinations seem to be problematic, the winning combination was a pair of Vertex 4s and the good old no frill MSI-Z77A-GD65. After 4 x BIOS updates it is the most stable Ivy Bridge out there that I have bought.
I went through the Asus, Intel, Gigabyte and once again have found that MSI really fixes problmes quickly.
OCZ has had 3 x updates to the Vertex 4's so while I usually don't jump on new products I really wanted this, and figured it would take a while to get everything right, but newegg takes anything back within 30 days, and they are a most honorable distributor.
Initial tests show that the Kontakt template of 11.6GB's that use to take 15 minutes to load, now loads in 3 minutes flat with all large heavy articulated instruments....
Ankyu.......