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Project MINI RACK (mini-rack.jeffgeerling.com)
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You wanna talk about Mini Racks? Let's talk about Mini Racks.

Project MINI RACK is a guide for miniature rack builds, for compact Homelabs, RF battlestations, and portable network racks. Watch the video announcing this project by clicking the image below:

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you meant the RasPis, there are off-the-shelf cooling solutions you can use. Otherwise, I don't see any mini PC.

I've also seen NUCs and Mac Minis in rack setups and they'd have fans, either integrated in the units, or in the rack fittings.

Last but not least, mini PCs don't even generate that much heat, unless you're overclocking the crap out of it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I think I saw someone on one of the LTT CES videos that used a 10 inch rack for a pair of itx builds with high end gpus. It looked really neat, and had an open frame test bench vibe which looked like it could handle all that power and heat coming from the 2 machines