What Does 4ru Rack Mean?

What Does 4ru Rack Mean?

Space crunch is a problem faced by each and everyone in all aspects of life. If people want to have 10 houses or offices, they would not find land space to build it. The best way is to build is a 10 floor building, which saves land and also reduces the cost. In the same way if we arrange daily needed equipments/things continuously that would occupy a lot of land space. If we arrange them one above the other, chances of them falling down is very high. The solution for such problem is a rack. The counter helps in organising things neatly. They are classified depending on the size, capacity, strength, mount and number of units in the server rack. For example: 4ru rack, 6ru wall mount rack.

Now let us look at what these terms mean.

4ru rack: This rack is generally a 19 inch. As the name suggests it has 4 rack units placed at equal distance. You can assume that it cannot be wall mounted and should be placed on the floor.

6ru wall mount rack: It is a 6 rack unit that can be mounted on a wall. It is made strong which could hold heavy equipments with ease. Servers, routers, security equipment, network equipments, UPS equipments are generally stored in these racks.

These racks can also be tailor made suiting your requirement. Adding locks for security reasons, increased air flow to reduce heat are some of the issues which should be looked upon while getting a tailor made rack.