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RE: Dear NANOG Gods
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Faraone)
Tue May 21 15:12:15 2013
From: Jason Faraone <JFaraone@paulo.com>
To: 'Joe Abley' <jabley@hopcount.ca>, Warren Bailey
<wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 19:10:32 +0000
In-Reply-To: <585071D9-C7B9-4D68-A466-0E44A228C42F@hopcount.ca>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Would you happen to have a link for a flight case that would fit a 1-2u ser=
ver? I was in the same situation a few days ago and ran the risky propositi=
on of building my own box.
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Abley [mailto:jabley@hopcount.ca]=20
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 1:56 PM
To: Warren Bailey
Cc: NANOG list
Subject: Re: Dear NANOG Gods
Hi Warren,
On 2013-05-21, at 14:48, Warren Bailey <wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.=
com> wrote:
> I need to ship some Dell servers, and my google skills have gotten me now=
here. Is there a decent place to find standard server size shipping boxes? =
Located in Socal if anyone has an extra or two.. ;)
The last time I had to ship a box myself I went to the local UPS Canada off=
ice, since they evidently will pack and ship rather than just ship.
The last time we had to ship a number of (Dell, actually) boxes from ICANN =
in LA we bought some flight cases that we could rack the servers into. Our =
thought was to go for reusable, rather than one-off (and we had doubts abou=
t the state of the boxes upon arrival if they weren't securely packed; a fl=
ight case with 19" rails inside seemed like a good bet).
We found the flight cases with only minimal googling, but if you're having =
trouble Mehmet could no doubt hook you up.
And if you're close to El Segundo and we can get the flight case back when =
you're done, you could probably just borrow ours :-)
Joe
