I've seen so many 10" servers that look amazing from the front and very polished, but then having a rats nest of cables and a mess at the back.
After 62 iterations and many 3D prints, blood, sweat, profanity and tears. I my design and implementation is finally done.
I used Hexagons where possible, because as you know, Hexagons are the bestagons
This is Before:
And the After:
The ducky adds 200MHz
The front of my mini-rack is actually still somewhat of a mess, I thought I'd focus on the back first.
I've published it in excruciating detail on my GitHub Leave a Star if you like what you see.
I self host a bunch of stuff on here to get away from Big-Tech, and because I find it fun. For a lot more details see https://erasmus.works/
It always bothered me the the fronts of racs are modular, but not the backs, this solves that
If you have any questions feel free to ask, hopefully this helps other clear up their rats nests.
I have basically taken a power strip, and made each plug a module.
The inside of a power strip, like in this image, is in series.
mains → yellow → red → blue → green → blue(end)
If a join between yellow and red is broken, it knocks out red and everything after it.
If what is plugged into yellow is plugged out, or disconnects everything else keeps working.
The same is true for my setup, the joins between Yellow, red etc. are just on the outside of the case, so you can disconnect them if you want, which would kill the power to what is after it. But you don't have to do that.
I think I understand more now, I just fundamentally don't understand that zig-zag of joins on the back if the point was better wire management.
I can't imagine how'd you'd link them up, without having to reach inside the case, and having it modular.
Ideally the zig zag isn't there, but did you see the before?