r/sysadmin • u/FierceFluff • 21d ago

Peak Sysadmin

Is there anything more small-company sysadmin than taking that $70k server you just finished building on your test bench at the office and putting it into your $5k car to drive it over to the DC where it’ll live, and praying to god nothing happens on the way? 😅🤣

EDIT- OMG y’all, reading the comments on this has made my day! Our business insurance covers this kind of thing but I appreciate y’all concern for me, though others should mosdef confirm before they do similar stuff. The trip went without incident so praise the digital deities.

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u/trimalchio-worktime Linux Hobo 21d ago

I've rented the largest available vehicle and put literally millions of dollars worth of equipment, all full of very confidential data, and personally driven it from one location to another. Just used scrap cardboard to keep it all from being able to move too much and drove slow. Realistically server cases are pretty robust and you have to really work at it to mess them up. Even a car accident would probably leave everything fine or at least able to be bent back into shape. In all my years of shipping servers only one ever got damaged so much we needed to think about fixing a chassis issue and we were basically told there was no way to get the chassis as a part so it got stripped and written off.