{"id":45,"date":"2026-10-11T09:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T09:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-storage\/how-many-rack-units-do-you-really-need\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T23:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T23:42:15","slug":"how-many-rack-units-do-you-really-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-storage\/how-many-rack-units-do-you-really-need\/","title":{"rendered":"How many rack units do you really need?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every piece of rack equipment says its height in rack units on the label or the data sheet: 1U is 44.45 mm (sample note).<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Add them up, then add 1U for a patch panel and 1U for a switch if you bring your own. Leave a quarter free for the next two years: moving later costs more than the empty units.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then check the power. A rack full of storage can need more power than the space suggests, and power, not space, is often what decides the size.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Count the U on each label, add the patch panel, then leave room to grow (sample note).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colocation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-storage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-storage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-storage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-storage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-storage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-storage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-storage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-storage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-storage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-storage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-storage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}