Yeah. That’s right. Power Cables.
In my day-to-day job, I have to wire and manage a bunch of servers. Usually this involves providing power to these servers. You know the power cords I’m speaking of. 5-6 foot. Black. Standard Issue power cord for a computer. Unfortunately, the majority of my servers are in a rack stacked on top of each other. This causes a bit of a tangled mess when you’re going from a power strip in the rear of the rack into the server with 5-6 feet of power cords. Then multiply that by 30-40 1U servers in a single rack. You get the idea.
Originally, my design was to coil the excess power cable into a nice tight ring. This got hairy after plugging more than 24 of these cables in. The new solution? 1 foot power cords. Yeah that’s right. 1 foot. $1.70 each at sfcable.com. I found them elsewhere for $5-$7 each and was disgusted with the price.. Luckily sfcable came along and made me enjoy wiring power cables again.
If you manage a bunch of servers in a rack, and have a power strip less than a foot away from the rear of your servers get these short cables. They’re easier to wire, look cleaner and will make your job a lot easier keeping things neat and pretty. Oh and they also come in 2ft 2.46ft 3ft lengths. Perfect for any rack mount server.
