Their chassis is designed so that the lid is mounted in the rack, and the base (containing the guts of the machine) slides in and out
Ewwww - that design sucks if you ask me. We've got a couple of older 1U Dell machines at work with this style of design and its quite easy for things to go wrong with it. The classic one is that you can't pull the server from the rack whilst its turned on - generally there is a microswitch to power off the server if you do that. There is also the risk of cables being caught between the machine and the lid when its slid back into place.
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Date: 2006-01-27 20:45 (UTC)Ewwww - that design sucks if you ask me. We've got a couple of older 1U Dell machines at work with this style of design and its quite easy for things to go wrong with it. The classic one is that you can't pull the server from the rack whilst its turned on - generally there is a microswitch to power off the server if you do that. There is also the risk of cables being caught between the machine and the lid when its slid back into place.
Who made those machines ?