Question Of The Morning – How do you deal with cable management? Send us your pics!

Is that what your server room looks like? Or do you have some magic cable management skills you want to share with our readers? Send us shots of your server room or server closet or the half closet half server room half place where you take naps on these 100 degree days?

Dont be shy comment away… Post pics or send them to us via email info at asktheadmin dot com.

Karl Gechlik
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Edit Here’s one of TheAdmiN’s server rooms:

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#1 written by Commodore
about 4 years ago

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OMG i still dont have any good system for doing that.. anybody have any pics of the flipside? I’d love to see what someones idea of a pristine wiring setup looks like
#2 written by Karl L. Gechlik
about 4 years ago

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i dont know about prestine… But this is one of my neater racks.. I added it to the post above.
#3 written by Commodore
about 4 years ago

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I like it, you showed me yours so ill show u mine – will snap it tomorrow, though, as stated in my 8125 post, my phone cam is next to useless, so it’ll be grainy.
#4 written by Karl L. Gechlik
about 4 years ago

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Dude i’m still waiting

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