WHY ARE SERVER RACKS SO FUCKING EXPENSIVE

They're pieces of metal welded together, how can they justify charging any higher than $100 for this?

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just weld your own pieces of metal together dummy

>take wheels off abandoned shopping cart
>mount them to metal bookshelf with back removed
Life's easier than you think

Small market, large shipping boxes, the employees ordering these are usually not the owner so it's not their money, the owner (or whoever writes the checks) is usually a tech illiterate and tends to sign off on any productivity hardware no matter how overcosted, also you're forgetting those little plastic wheels maybe they cost $35 a pop.

>not stacking your servers on these

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Enterprise cucks are the primary buyers and they don't mind getting fucked by overpriced products so it drives up what they can be sold for

Either buy ikea furniture and some rails or woodwork yourself

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Volume matters. I bought 160 APC racks for a facility and they came out to about $145 each after freight.

Short racks are a niche market and don't benefit from the economy of scale.

Are you retarded? Also, see above.

>legs not lining up with body
disgusting

I use the lack rack, but upside down with big castor wheels bolted on

>there are no cheap simple 6-8u closed racks with >650mm depth
I'm sick of having mine sat ontop of eatch other under a lack table.

The same reason why IKEA charges you hundreds of dollars for plywood glued together with a paper cover on top.

LACKrack is a thing. 6,99 for one.

that looks like a thermal nightmare.

THIS.
Servers are generally bought by large company and corporations, so manufactures can ask whatever they want.
Home servers are dominated by synology, or jellyfish

because they can, and it's still the cheapest part of the server by far
also the ones without wheels are cheaper

You NEVER buy this new. Companies literally throw this in the trash every couple of years. You can get used server racks (which are perfectly fine, of course) for free or a dozen of bucks.

Air goes from back to front or the other way around, I forgot. Either way, this is fine.

This. Applies to anything server, never buy new.

lol I did that with miner shit before but I don't think servers will fit

Anything beyond 48u racks is specialty and going to have a premium
I paid $200 for the 24u rack I have and it works perfectly fine

$25 is for Chinese company that built that thing, rest is for making importer and his family rich.

because when you spend 30k or more on a single baremetal, an extra 200 means fuck all.

>being this poor

You don't get rich by pissing away money my man

>implying pic in OP is less covered
are you retarded

Oh yeah love that fan noise in the living room
Fucking stupid

Because the demand is small and the value is high.
These things are meant to earn money to the user.

Heat blockers are like 5 bucks a piece.
Just a plastic slab.

Yeah, there's a whole industry of overpriced $1000 knickknacks.

you don't have to put it in the living room, you know

>in the living room
my lack is in the corner of my spare room, stay mad