Rackmount friendly and port placement [SUGGESTION]

[bryanvaz]

Just a suggestion for the next revision:

Can you put all the ports on one side and make sure the case is 1U high?

If all the ports are on one side and the case stays 1U, we can mount a number of these on a 1U bracket on the hot side of the rack. When mounted in a fully populated rack, there will be no way to access the rear of the device easily, and it does not make sense to unmount the entire device just to rewire a connection. This is because the space in the rack above and below will be taken up with other equipment, and the device is so small that reaching inside a 22" rack from the back to unplug/plug-in cables would be virtually impossible.

If you make these rack friendly (and preimaged), you'll probably get a large number of orders from anyone with a co-lo server. (I know I would order 5 if they were rack friendly)

For anyone curious, the reason you would mount it on the hot side is because the video connections and PCI brackets for most servers are on the hot side (rear).

[ThomasVon2021]

OK, thank you very much for your suggestion. We will seriously consider it.