On Tue, 21 May 2013, Joe Abley wrote:
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 :-)
There a number of vendors that can either custom-build cases, or might
have something off-the-shelf that will work, and meet ATA300/Milspec
standards.
Calzone Cases - http://www.calzonecases.com/
Jan-Al Cases - http://www.janalcase.com/
Pelican-Hardigg - http://www.pelican.com/
NOTE: I use several different types of road/flight cases for transporting
audio gear for $sidejob.
Fair warning: A case that provides the level of cushioning and impact
protection you're looking for is likely to be heavy - possibly as heavy as
the server itself.
jms
