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
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