Saw a server rack at a garage sale that made me rethink my whole home setup

I was driving through Elmwood last Saturday and spotted this old server rack in someone's driveway with wires dangling everywhere like spaghetti. The guy said he pulled it from a closed bank and the cable mess was so bad it took him 3 days to figure out what went where. Has anyone else picked up free gear that came with a hidden rats nest?

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the_zara1d ago

Is it really that serious though? I mean yeah a messy cable setup is annoying but it's not like you need to "rethink your whole home setup" over some old bank gear. People act like a few loose wires are a life changing crisis when really you just spend an hour with some zip ties and it's fine. If the rack is solid and the price was right, that's all that matters. The wiring is just cosmetic.

leo2381d ago

My last cable management job looked like a spider web threw up in a server rack, so I know exactly what you mean @the_zara. Spent half an hour untangling one power cord and accidentally unplugged my NAS in the process, lost a whole weekend of Plex metadata. Honestly if the gear works and you don't have a four year old trying to yank on the cables, some zip ties and a Saturday afternoon will sort it out.