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What rails to mount a SuperMicro 1U in a Dell Rack Chasis?

Hello, I bought some used rack equipment off of ebay, and am trying to put it all together, but I need some guidance figuring out what rack rails to get to mount my servers.

The rack itself is a Dell, and my servers are Supermicros; I'm attaching a couple of pictures, one of the rack itself, one of the rail that came on one of the servers.

What I need to know is:
What do I need to know about this in order to buy rails?
Do rails come with both the part that goes on the server, AND the part that goes inside the rack?
Are rails fairly standard?
Anything else jump out at you that I need to know? LOL.

Thanks for your help!

--Jon
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Brian B

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It's a terrible photo of the rail but it appears that it is bolted to the server so I think it's just the inner rail. The outer part is probably still in the rack the server came out of. Assuming you buy rails off SuperMicro for that particular chassis they are most likely to fit so long as they are depth adjuatable. It's almost guarnteed supermicro ones are depth adjustable since their target customer may have any make of rack.

Supermicro 1U rails here (although can only see outer part in the pic) http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1611332 . Not necessarily the same supermicro 1U rails you need though.

Jon Jaques

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Thanks for your replies! Very much appreciated!

Yes, the rack holes are square; is that kind of a "key indicator" when buying rails? It looks like there's a piece that snaps into the square hold that gives you something to screw into; are those pieces common and commonly available?

Also yes, that is a terrible picture... we have a rule around here, "never let a perfectly good project go uninterrupted by 10 phone calls"! And yes, that is just the inner rail... would a better picture help any?

By "chassis", I presume you're talking about the server, and not the rack, correct?

So, putting it all together, I want to buy rails for my model supermicro for a rack with square holes, with sufficient depth; is that all I need to know to make a good purchase? :D

Again, thanks for your input, I'll share points appropriately!!!!

--Jon

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