🚀 Elevate Your Raspberry Pi Game!
The UCTRONICS Front Removable 1U Rack Mount is a versatile and user-friendly solution for housing up to four Raspberry Pi models, featuring a tool-free installation process and compatibility with standard server racks. Its innovative design allows for easy access and individual removal of each unit, making it a must-have for tech enthusiasts and professionals alike.
K**Y
Quality rack mount product
This is a quality product! It is made out of a thick sheet of steel, so there is no flexing or bowing. The parts are accurately cut and bent, there is no excess slack or wobble. Everything fits together nicely. And lastly, the paint, or power coat, is done nicely, a nice thick coat with no scratches, or defects.The people who made this took pride in their product. This isn't just some cheaply made sheet metal thing. This is a well manufactured and engineered product.
H**R
NVMe and/or PoE HATs Will Not Fit
Overall great product. I'm writing the review I needed to see before purchasing this. Fits non-HAT pis great.I got this product knowing that the GeeekPi P33 M.2 NVME M-Key PoE+ Hat rpi5 I'm have was going be close fit. There are multiple fit issues: that header pins, a capacitor, and what I assume is the transformer on the GeeekPi HAT are too tall to clear the top of the rack mount holder. They will also extend slightly above the 1U height. The screw down retaining clip of the NVMe and a capacitor both stick out too far to the front preventing the pi from screwing down into the holder.I already had all the parts and decided to "make it fit." See the attached photos. I still have the problem of it sticking up above the 1U space allocated for the rack mount, but I'm just going to have to get creative with it's placement in the rack where it has some headroom.Learn from my hubris. Don't try this with this brand of NVME/PoE HAT. But if you try it anyway, see photos on how to make it work.
C**D
Very well designed and constructed - not compatible with NVMe mount
I recently outgrew a GeeekPi 6-Layers Raspberry Pi Cluster Case which served me well for a few years. After doing a little research I chose this design for its accessibility and modularity. It is very easy to mount your pi boards and connect your front-facing USB and ethernet cables; a little tedious connecting power and micro-hdmi but it's possible.At the same time I have been outfitting some new Pi 5s with Samsung NVMe 980s using the base from Pimoroni (also well designed and released before the official Raspberry NVMe base). Unfortunately with the Pimoroni mounted below the raspberry, the ethernet and top 2 USBs are no longer accessible. Because I hate waste, I am probably going to dremel out a bit of the harness, but thought this might help people and maybe UCTRONICS can design a model that will work with the NVMe bases.Update: here's a picture showing where I dremeled out a small portion of the housing face to gain access to the front ethernet port. Bottom row has my Pi 5s with NVMe base and top row has Pi 4s without.
D**C
Good product, almost great
I you are going to mount 4 Raspberry Pi devices in a 1U space, this case is almost perfect. The problem starts when you add a combo POE + NVME hat. This avoids the problems of additional power cables and power supplies, relying on Micro-SD cards for storage, and the power and cabling challenges of external USB storage. You can certainly configure a Raspberry Pi with a standalone power supply and external USB storage, but would you really want 4 of them configured this way in a rack case? I think not.A typical POE + NVME configuration is stacked a few millimeters too tall to fit, requiring some creativity to make it work. All they would really have to do is shorten the posts on the bottom of the trays. These are threaded posts, so you can't just Dremel them down to size. And of course it would really help if someone made a low-profile POE + NVME hat.With some creativity to get past the vertical space problem, this case allows me to run a Raspberry Pi Kubernetes cluster, for experimental purposes. It would be a 5-star case if only it wasn't such a hassle to get a well-equipped Raspberry Pi to fit.
B**S
Finally, a good generic rack mount solution!
I like this product so much, I bought three.The trays have a single large hole, so they accept Raspberry Pi 3 and 4 ... probably the original and 2 as well, but I haven’t tried. They’re also slide into the 1U frame from the front and secure with thumb screws. Super nice.I even modified one to hold a DFRobot Compute Module 4 Router by adding two additional 9mm standoffs (since the router is shorter). Because the UCtronics standoffs are RPi width (1mm wider than the router), I could only use screws on one side to secure the board, but it’s solid and not going anywhere.
T**A
Great product for the rack mounting RaspberryPi
I only have two out of the four mounted so far, but this thing is great for mounting RaspberryPi computers. I also bought the UCTRONICS Micro SD to Micro SD Card Male to Female Flexible Extender to complete the package. Have not had any issues. If you need to rack mount your RaspberryPi this it it.
M**P
Cheapest on the market but still too much.
It does what it says, however for the size that it is and the build quality with it sagging slightly with 4 raspberry pi installed in the rack leaves more to be desired. The screenprinting is also realatively poor quality and the oils from my hands and just minimally touching it while installing has smeared the text already. The spring loaded thumb screws do work as intended and I have removed a pi or two a number of times to rearange them and I have not had issues with any of the treads. I would have been more fine with the price if the metal would have been thicker and the screen printing better as at least the quality would have justified the price.
S**E
Does exactly what it is intended to do
If you are after a simple, no frills 19" rack to mount your Raspberry Pi's this is it. Each Pi is mounted on a frame for individual removal and insertion. The rack is not enclosed at the back so open to dust etc (no problem for me). Solid build quality too. I could complain about the price but let's face it, a cheap Pi rack is a thing of pure fiction.
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