I removed the wooden box I’d built around my server rack. It’s been there .. almost 4 years now, keeping most of the dust and dirt out of my servers (well, more or less).
It was quite well constructed, and was not all that easy to take apart. I’d run all the important wires through a hole in the back… of course in such a way they all needed to be unplugged to remove the back!
Managed to do it however with a little help and effort. The rack is now out there uncovered for the first time in years, and it’s smaller than I remember it. No doubt, that box was a bit bigger on all sides (it was made from 2x4s after all).
I worried for a little while that the rack I just bought was going to be as big, but I just looked at it. The old rack is definitely 40U, the new one is 32U.. that means it’ll be 14 inches shorter, at 56 inches. (Oh, and wheels of course).