I just bought 3x cheap 4U cases for fitting microatx hardware. But rails are not included.
Are slider rails mandatory or only for convenience?
Servers are quite light. It's compute nodes. Only psu + Motherboard + CPU. No hardrives.
I just bought 3x cheap 4U cases for fitting microatx hardware. But rails are not included.
Are slider rails mandatory or only for convenience?
Servers are quite light. It's compute nodes. Only psu + Motherboard + CPU. No hardrives.
If it's acceptable for you to put them on 1U shelf plates in the rack, you don't need rails. However, you will loose 3U for 3 of these (I absolutely don't recommend stacking them on top of each on one shelf unit).
This depends entirely on how deep the cases are. If they're particularly-shallow, you may be able to mount using the front rack-ears only.
Can you link to the product you purchased?
I've had cheap whitebox servers without rails in a 2-post rack... It's not ideal, but it works.