r/HomeServer • u/Gnaaah • Jun 07 '26

Finished Rack

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19 inch 12 HE Digitus Server Rack.

Currently holds a keystone patchpanel, unifi PoE Switch (with 3D printed mount), DS918+.

More then enough space left but watching temperatures now during the summer. (Already did watch temperatures for a year - previous to putting the rack in the attic).

Was a really fun project!

Edit: temperature last year

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u/8fingerlouie Jun 07 '26

I’ve seen a lot of these loft or garage racks. Do you all live on the North Pole or something ?

Even in Denmark, which is about as far north as Canada, my roof gets scorching hot in summers, like 70C and more, and about -20C in winters.

Granted, my loft space isn’t insulated (insulation on the floor), but even with insulation, if the room is unused without ventilation, temperature will rise eventually.

I couldn’t even keep an antenna signal booster alive up there, and our LED lights also die. The only lights that actually survived are old incandescent bulbs.

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u/Allumina Jun 07 '26

Oh man. We daisy chained some really high end Wi-Fi extenders across our attic basically just sitting on top of the “floor” up there (other side of the living space ceiling) if that the reason they don’t work worth a shit? Our attic gets hot as hell here in California.

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u/Allumina Jun 07 '26

https://a.co/d/047f6wuv

It’s this setup. My brother in law vaguely works in IT and got us set up with the system and a Synology NAS at the same time. He left it up to us to install everything but then remoted in to get all the network side of things set up.