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server racks they're kind of like not to a fans or construction equipment and that the only people there winning any style points with are the folks who have this like deep appreciation for utility that's the way it's always been and that's the way that it looked like it was going to be forever until now clay tech a division of AI star USA with whom we've worked in the past on our surveillance server our pfsense router that we DIY over a span of months as well as our off-site backup server has actually designed and manufactured a piece of what they're calling IT furniture the wrt retro style rack so let's have a look and see what one of those is so Tax GT X 1080 mini is extremely compact and powerful measuring just 8.3 inches in length check it out at the link in the video description I actually have no idea how much these things cost I have no idea how many of them have been made they are listed as build to order on the clay tax site but what I do know is that like for a company whose experience is mostly in building black nondescript boxes the craftsmanship is looking not that all right Brandon you win your battle it looks like we're taking this tablecloth off fine it is oh man heavy very well packed that's for sure so they've actually got a bunch of different models available everything from a very very small very shallow cabinet all the way to one that's actually quite a bit larger and deeper than this one so I went free 9u four hundred and fifty millimeters so that's 45 centimeter deep cabinet so obviously something like this wouldn't be suitable for mounting you know like like a really long storage server or anything like that but if you're looking for a super cool place to put some AV equipment or you know some network switches or you know a very very small machine this is looking pretty good flip it over so I've clearly got it upside down okay so the craftsmanship is not perfect you know Steve Jobs you know cable managed the inside of you know laptops and phones probably wouldn't be that impressed with the the wood trim not meeting up here and with these kind of unimpressive plastic feet but let's go ahead and turn it over and see what the tops like maybe it's up for it in the part that you actually see so much like a sort of retro styled trunk or case you've got this actual leather actually leather I mean I guess it's one of those things where if you're going to go our word you might as well go full full our word so the handles on the sides the corner protectors here and here are all genuine leather now ah let's put some gear in it shall we about a half an hour till when show so I'm thinking let's put all of our audio equipment in it what could go wrong focus right just set us up with this stuff and this is up this is exactly the kind of thing that I would expect someone to put in a piece of you know rack equipment like this remember kids always take a picture of the back before disassembling something that you don't know how to put back together it's m5 threaded rather than having like what you'd see in a full-size cabinet with the inserts on the back and the much heavier threading so I really wouldn't recommend mounting anything super-heavy in here but that once you get some actual gearing here I don't know what it is about the aesthetic of like audio equipment and this retro kind of charm that we got going on here but I think this thing looks really cool actually I had a fought I've got this chassis sitting around from the actually it's a nice car USA chassis that I was supposed to do a project with I never got around to it and it looks like no that was a bit of an oversight when it comes to the design of this thing one two three one two three one two three one two three yeah so if they had thought of it they could have made it so that the bottom holes lined up perfectly for something to sit right on the bottom but as it you would actually have to support it off of these screws which I don't think would be recommended however if you did just want to like get on out it then you could throw some kind of a storage machine or some kind of a processing machine down here on the bottom no big deal okay I got a couple more things I got a network switch and our old I scuzzy locks here just to fill it up have a look at that can look like and uh ah yeah see this one this network switch is pretty heavy there you go ah tied down how whatever yeah that line this guy what does he know about rack mounting things that looks so cool I love it it's like frickin amazing it's like on the one side blank old-fashioned retro and the other side it's like oh my goodness look at all these dials and buttons but now the final benchmark those leather handles how do they hold up to it actually being loaded oh okay hold on you're not going heavy side heavy side on my side okay hold on have you ever thought to yourself hmm what would it be like if I wanted to talk to my you know mobile carrier and I called them up and 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