On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Joe Abley wrote:
We've located a few vendors who sell shock-tolerant cabinets, but they're expensive and seem to me to be aimed at people who need to ship a set of equipment frequently (e.g. to support movie shoots, outside broadcasts, etc), rather than people who want to ship just once.
Do I even need to spend time wondering about shock-tolerant cabinets, or should I instead be concentrating on finding the right company to wrap the cabinets for shipping, and to do the shipping itself?
Probably be cheaper to get shock-tolerant packing crates and use normal cabinets. You'll probably learn a few hard lessons the first time around -- should have put in styrofoam wedges between servers, or the rackmounts you used didn't hold up to shipping, or your shipper isn't as careful as they said they'd be -- but with the right packing crates and shipping partner, it's doable. Plus the crates can be re-used, lowering your costs. Beckman --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Beckman Internet Guy beckman@angryox.com http://www.angryox.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------