The Advantage to using Rackmount Cases is space and convenience. When building a high performance cluster, you don't want to have to run expensive cabling all over the place as you do when your nodes are on shelves or tables. A Rack allows you to place your systems in close proximity to one another allowing for shorter, easier and neater cable runs. Not only that, but racks also provide better use of space and thus allow you to get more nodes into the same space.

Here at HardData, we custom build rackmount cases for servers, and raid arrays. Our cases conform to the industry standard 19" racks and range in size from 1 to 6 U's. Designed to take the industry standard ATX form factor, our cases can used for x86, Alpha, or Sparc systems.