Beautiful Cable Management – Pactech’s Data Center Cables in Real Life (PHOTOS)

DC-Rack-FlexLite-CAT6-Rapide-DAC-29

For the past few months, we always wanted to help customers “visualize” the benefits of our data center cables when they are applied in real life. Last week we assembled a rack together by populating top-of-rack (TOR) switches and servers (one of the two TOR switches and all the servers are just face plates made of sheet metal).

We installed three types of cables in the rack:
Rapide™ SFP+ DAC Cables
FlexLite™ 28AWG UTP CAT6 Cables
Color C14 to C13 SJT Power Cords

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New Products in our Estore: Fiber Optic Patch Cables, Power Cords, and CAT5e Cables

We’ve added new products to our estore! In response to requests from our customers, we have added the following popular products to our estore making it easier for small quantity orders. As usual, please contact us directly if you don’t see your desired length of a product or if you have large orders or custom requests. Stay tuned for more items to be added in the future.

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Why Did This SAS Cable Fail?

Crooked SAS Cable Photo 2 (Why Does This SAS Cable Fail?)

Photo 1: Returned SAS Cables

Recently we had a customer request to return a large quantity of SAS cables they had purchased from Pactech. They reported these cables were defective. Pause for a second and observe the photo above and two photos below of the returned cables. What can you conclude?

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Design Your Own SATA Custom Cables with Pactech’s Configurator

SATA Custom Cable Configurator

When you try to design a perfect server or computer system, you may not have thought about choosing a perfect drive cable. A perfect drive cable can make a big difference in airflow and thermal performance for your server (especially for those 1U “pizza boxes”), and it translates to saving your electricity bill and extending the lifetime of cooling fans, drives, and other components in it.

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