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A Closer Look At Rackable’s CloudRack

A Closer Look At Rackable’s CloudRack
- By: Rich Miller
  October 31st, 2008
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Hey, that server’s naked! Rackable’s new CloudRack has no top covers on its server trays. Leaving the metal “skin” off the top of the tray provides several advantages , making the rack considerably lighter and providing quicker access for maintenance. The photo below provides a full view of the individual server trays, which contain no fans, which have been built into the rear of the cabinet to make more room for storage drives.

Chris Sears

Posted October 31st, 2008

That seems like way more local storage than is really needed for most cloud computing nodes.

It looks like you could take out 4 drives and fit a whole second motherboard in there for 2 servers in one box sharing a power supply like the Supermicro Twin. Seems like there would be more demand for something like that in this sort of naked server / Google-style rack form factor.