Since some people were interested (on- and off-list), see below. On 2013-05-21, at 15:32, Mehmet Akcin <mehmet@icann.org> wrote:
hey there
we have a case from http://www.skbcases.com 20U 20"
they are really reliable (been using them since 6 years, shipped meeting equipment for ICANN before and also servers as joe mentioned below
let me know how we can help
mehmet
On May 21, 2013, at 12:27 PM, Joe Abley <joe.abley@icann.org> wrote:
Hey,
Do you remember where you bought those flight cases we used to ship Dell 1Us around the place?
People on NANOG want to know :-)
Joe
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From: Jason Faraone <JFaraone@paulo.com> Subject: RE: Dear NANOG Gods Date: 21 May 2013 15:10:32 EDT To: 'Joe Abley' <jabley@hopcount.ca>, Warren Bailey <wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com> Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Would you happen to have a link for a flight case that would fit a 1-2u server? I was in the same situation a few days ago and ran the risky proposition of building my own box.
-----Original Message----- From: Joe Abley [mailto:jabley@hopcount.ca] 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 nowhere. 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 office, 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 about the state of the boxes upon arrival if they weren't securely packed; a flight 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