Discussion

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Kenji: Nice fire safety and grounding. Wood is ideal for both. They should build data centers like this.

tokai: That shelf is more glue and fire retardant than it is wood. Its also really bad as a book shelf so it might still be superior in this role than the intended one.

wongarsu: How exactly do you envision this going wrong?The rack itself won't hold electrostatic charge, and if the devices themselves want to be grounded they can be grounded through their power supplyAnd wood isn't that easy to get to burn unless you turn it into small particles first

avian: As a current user of the said item of furniture I'm curious what makes it really bad as a book shelf.It's a shelf and in the past few years it has not yet failed at holding my books.

jl6: What you’re really here for is the Lack Rack:https://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/LackRack

pch00: I really don't want to be too much of a downer, but is this really just an HN post about someone putting something on a shelf?

voidUpdate: I mean, you can probably reduce any HN article to something that doesnt sound worthy of being on there if you want

relaxing: Sure, but this truly is just about putting a motherboard on a shelf.They couldn’t even be bothered to get a good photo of it ffs.

layer8: Reminds me of the LACK that is/was commonly used for server racks: https://www.google.com/search?udm=web&q=lack+rack

GJim: You're not wrong.How in gods name this article made it to the front page of HN is a mystery.

criddell: Bots are in to stuff like this.

nerdjon: I keep wanting to build this but I have seen people talking online that they changed the legs and they are now hollow and not really suitable for this.That has made me very cautious to use this for any serious amount of mounting.Edit: Apparently there is a section on that page about it, but does not give a ton of confidence that it won’t give me a lot of issues.

ralferoo: I have an old Lack (20 years) and while I've never used it as a rack, it'd just been retired from under the TV as I got a new one with a wider base. I notice that even though it's never been moved much, it doesn't feel very stable any more and I wouldn't trust it with a rack of heavy equipment, especially with HDDs that could suffer catastrophic failure if they fell. That said, attaching brackets would sure up the legs a bit. Ideally you'd want to attack brackets at the back as well I guess.

pwg: Because enough readers upvoted it to cause it to appear there.

GJim: You <-----> The Point.

JKCalhoun: The mobo collectors are going to have to fight the vinyl enthusiasts for IKEA's Billy shipments.

shagie: It depends on the loading. If you've got it 9-12" high apart and are putting paperbacks on there... that shouldn't be a problem.However, when the shelf becomes multiples of that, then people start putting hardcover volumes or laying the book flat and stacking them high within the shelf.It won't necessarily fail, but it can substantially sag with heavier loads.This is an issue for boardgammers who are after larger and heavier shelf spaces which is why the Kallax shelving is much preferred. I'll also note that Ivar shelving is solid wood rather than particleboard.

kotaKat: If the 486es were running OpenClaw then everyone would be losing their minds.