To use cable management arms or not

Coming from a webhosting env. We dealt with hundreds of servers some of which were always moving based on contract changes.

I don’t care for them and prefer velcro instead.

IMO, if you’re going to pull a server from a rack to do something inside the case it should be off. Hot swappable drives are all accessible from the front.

It was one more thing I didn’t need stuffed into the back of the rack.

It added to install time, and removal time.

It made it harder to replace a bad cable in a hurry.

It blocked access to the label on the cables near the jack.

It made it hard to move a server and cables if say I wanted to move it higher up and shorten them.

It added to any heat problems we might have had.

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