In the early stages of finishing the basement and one of the ideas I've had was to move my rack under the basement stairs. It's a smaller triplite rack with my lab gear etc. I need to get a new rackmount UPS as well. There will be some items on top of the rack so I need to save some room for that.
As it stands now this is what it looks like. The bottom 2u will be replaced with a rackmount UPS (currently have a standing UPS unit).
Here are my requirements in order of priority:
The back of the stairs will be hidden so i'm thinking of using that as the access and intake for cool air but I need to exhaust the hot air as well. This is my challenge. Open for any ideas.
Something like this (note not mine but would look similar)
As it stands now this is what it looks like. The bottom 2u will be replaced with a rackmount UPS (currently have a standing UPS unit).
Here are my requirements in order of priority:
- 1. Cool/Clean: Keeping components in Cool/Clean environemnt
- 2. Hidden
- 3. Noise
The back of the stairs will be hidden so i'm thinking of using that as the access and intake for cool air but I need to exhaust the hot air as well. This is my challenge. Open for any ideas.
Something like this (note not mine but would look similar)