World's Smallest Server Rack

[WANg]

...in case you need something to go with that stress relief dumpster fire, here's the world's smallest server rack complete with a top-of-the-rack switch, a firewall, a distro switch and a compute chassis - no word yet regarding storage but I don't think that should be a problem.





Please let me know if you are able to source support contracts.

P.S: Netapp support will ship in mid-Q2.



(and yes, the original price is 500 JPY, or ~3.50 USD. But good luck finding Gacha machines in Japan that sell the stuff)

Full enclosure shipping in Q3. And yes, that looks like an APC NetShelter, doesn't it?

 

[marcoi]

in for 4 unit, need proper cluster setup....

 

[itronin]

Everyone should hurry as this will sell out soon due to The STH Effect™! ( @Samir - I think I marked that correctly)

Edit formatting - fixed per @Samir

 

[WANg]

Everyone should hurry as this will sell out soon due to the STH Effect™! ( @Samir - I think I marked that correctly)

Well, don't forget to provision some extra capacity...like a Furukawa FX2 SDWAN box, a Cisco Catalyst 9300, a Meraki MX85 or whatnot.

P.S: Jesus, someone got 4 already?!

 

[marcoi]

It be a great day in home lab lives when the tech is this small and works....

 

[Samir]

Everyone should hurry as this will sell out soon due to the STH Effect™! ( @Samir - I think I marked that correctly)

I will usually preface with 'the' and italicize it for even more effect, lol. The STH Effect™

 

[Samir]

I can see these really popular among network engineer parents who want to 'groom' their kids to be in the same field..

[parent to child]
"Now the top of rack switch doesn't necessarily need to be at the top of the rack, but if you're placing it elsewhere you need to consider cable routing."

 

[Prophes0r]

Why is this in the "Great Deals" section?

 

[WANg]

Why is this in the "Great Deals" section?

Because it's literally an entire server rack full of equipment for a pair of yuppie food stamps...?
Also, really hilarious way to add some surrealism to your wife's hobby rack.

"Hun, what the hell is that next to the cafe...?"
"Backoffice equipment. Need a Ficon backend for the IBM z16 mainframe on the second shelf..."

 

[WANg]

I can see these really popular among network engineer parents who want to 'groom' their kids to be in the same field..

[parent to child]
"Now the top of rack switch doesn't necessarily need to be at the top of the rack, but if you're placing it elsewhere you need to consider cable routing."

For me, it's a nice little gift for my high school age interns...probably a good teaching tool as well. I am actually a bit surprised that this is not more popular as swag during big stateside trade shows...it's certainly better than those nVidia RTX video card fridge magnets I got.

 

[Prophes0r]

Because it's literally an entire server rack full of equipment for a pair of yuppie food stamps

No...it's a joke.
And an expensive joke at that.

These are literally gachapon prizes.
They are the stuff you get from a $1 random vending machine.

Is it funny? Yeah.
Is is a "Great Deal", which is the entire point of this thread? Heck no.

This post belongs in the "General Chat" thread.

 

[piranha32]

No...it's a joke.
And an expensive joke at that.

These are literally gachapon prizes.
They are the stuff you get from a $1 random vending machine.

Is it funny? Yeah.
Is is a "Great Deal", which is the entire point of this thread? Heck no.

This post belongs in the "General Chat" thread.

Why so serious?

 

[Samir]

No...it's a joke.
And an expensive joke at that.

These are literally gachapon prizes.
They are the stuff you get from a $1 random vending machine.

Is it funny? Yeah.
Is is a "Great Deal", which is the entire point of this thread? Heck no.

This post belongs in the "General Chat" thread.

Learned something new today. Japan has its own culture that's for sure...

 

[Prophes0r]

FYI

They are being made right now, and you can buy them on Ali or TaoBao, starting at ~$15 shipped.

The Amazon page is even using the default manufacturer photos.

 

[WANg]

Learned something new today. Japan has its own culture that's for sure...

Uncle Jeff's blue elves came through - got them last night. Just like everything in the world, you pay extra for immediacy in service, sometimes to the point of ridiculousness. Is it worth 10 bucks per Gacha ball (even if it’s 500 yen per pull when an average Japanese breakfast set is about 450 yen)? Probably not, but I am certainly happy to get mine without waiting weeks for slow boat + tariffs induced customs delays, and I've certainly done dumber things for crappier swag/giveaways during trade shows. For the record, Tarlin released a list of participating retail locations (updated December 2024) on their blog for the series, but it's in Japanese, it's Japan-only, it's not guaranteed that they'll have it and given how Gacha pulling works, you might end up spending more (in reality much more) at a gacha vendor just for the complete set.

Here's what it looks like next to my 1:12 scale Pudu Bellabot model. More in-depth review with diagrams to follow.

 

[itronin]

so dark! did you order a single pack?

 

[Magnet]

I bought 2 last year from ebay for a little less. Gifted one to a friend and put one on my desk. they are fun to build and mess with.

 

[WANg]

so dark! did you order a single pack?

From Amazon? Yes - it's really something I just found poking around, and technically it was off some credit card reward points (so it's effectively free). I ordered some from eBay at a slightly lower price point (8 USD each) for 2 of the series 1 sets (the one with the Cisco Catalyst 9300) and that's being shipped from the US West coast. It was also sitting on top of my Lenovo Miix 2 tablet and the decommissioned t740 thin client. I'll probably need to do something with that machine.




Wait. Did those sons-of-bitches just raise the price to 55 bucks?



Eh, no, screw that. At 40 bucks it was pricey but fun. At 55? That's a solid hell-no.

 

[itronin]

yep. $55... still $34 on the bay. this popped as a suggested item:

Pardon Our Interruption...

Zabbix!!! LMFAO

 

[WANg]

yep. $55... still $34 on the bay. this popped as a suggested item:

Pardon Our Interruption...

Zabbix!!! LMFAO

Yeah, it was a rebrand of an old mini-PC set that they had. The Zabbix / Needlework reference is really just a sticker that you slap onto the LCD and the mini-laptop screen...that mini-laptop reminded me of Kohjinsha mini-netbooks (or Toshiba Libretto U100s) that were popular with Japanese nerds up until 10 years ago...Man, looking at that thing is such a heartbreak, especially back when I had massive Japanese domestic market gadget lust. I can't even look at at the NEC/Fujitsu/Panasonic listings at Yodobashi (Japan's Best Buy equivalent) nowadays without rolling my eyes - it's almost as if Japan outlawed SODIMM slots on their otherwise excellent designs. Probably quite telling that most of the equipment listed at that Gacha collection are either not Japanese, or ran on non-Japanese software stacks, and you can tell that they were trying their hardest to find some - the Furukawa and the Apresia is cool-as-hell, but the NEC Univerge is like the clown car offering. What, they can't talk to Fujitsu-Siemens about putting up a Primergy server?

Oh yeah, I did buy the Buffalo wireless router miniatures set since Buffalo Wifi4/5 routers are generally excellent for Tomato/OpenWRT/DD-WRT, and I've always been a fan of Melco Buffalo products. Not so sure about Wiif6 AX12 (not sold/available stateside) but Broadcom support for their AX chipsets have been...nearly non-existent. Their hardware is top notch, though, my WZR-1750DHP was only recently replaced.

Edit: Oh shit. The Qualcomm based AX12 is supported on OpenWRT and DD-WRT.