10 Pack Metallic 1U D Ring Cable Manager Ring Network Rack Cable Management Ring Cable Management Hook for Network Patch Cables, Fiber Optic, Power Cords – Made in Taiwan

3 reviews for 10 Pack Metallic 1U D Ring Cable Manager Ring Network Rack Cable Management Ring Cable Management Hook for Network Patch Cables, Fiber Optic, Power Cords – Made in Taiwan

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   – January 29, 2024 Prof. Nicklaus Connelly III

   I got these for use on a generic telecomm rack that I installed in my basement. I have been looking for proper cable management trays for horizontal and vertical management of the cables and have had a hard time finding any that I am sure would work on my rack. When these popped up I figured what the heck, for the price they should work. They do a great job of managing the cables and keeping the away from the face of the equipment as well as help keep the stress off of the cable connectors as they enter the equipment. They are sturdy, but also are bendable so you can “open” or “close” them if you have a large amount of bundled cables that you are installing. The included screws are fine if you have a rack with threaded holes, my rack uses cage nuts. It would be nice if they included cage nuts as well, but not a big deal for me as I have bags of them on hand. If you need cage nuts just note that these do not include them. For $2 a piece they are a decent value and cost effective. I still would prefer cable trays with covers so that I can make everything look tidy, but given that it is in my basement and not a customers communications closet, they get the job done at a very reasonable price. Double thumbs up!

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   – March 20, 2024 Dr. Dessie Hilpert

   For what they are, they are great. The product is all metal, sturdy, and won’t bend under pressure.The only down side for me is they are intended only for rack installation. The included mounting bolts are machine screws meant to drill into a standard 19″ rack with existing rack nuts.For my application, I wanted to use them for a wiring run along a wood framing structure. It’s not possible to put a screw driver directly straight to the screw because of the shape of the metal ends intended to hold the cables. The product gets in its own way. You can use your own wood screws and run the screws at an angle. They will work.For a rack application, you’d probably need a very short, stubby screwdriver.Not quite the easiest for my application, but not bad.

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   – December 24, 2024 Prof. Luella Adams PhD

   These came in a cardboard box with each 1U server wire guide individually wrapped in its own zip lock pouch.They also included two sets of screws to use if you needed them to attach to your server rack.Each wire guide “hook” is well formed, sturdy, nicely finished.They should blend in & complement most any install.These are not large or intrusive, only are designed & meant to stick out just enough to route & contain a few cables at a time.In our case, our server rack is inside the bottom of a utility closet (we have temperature controlled fans to pull in & exhaust air) & we have all our services (cable & fiber optic) routed into this closet — we can switch services or run both concurrently if we wanted.All wired ethernet terminates into this utility closet as well. Also we have our smart controller hubs, alarm system hubs, Sonos hub, VOIP hub, and VOIP phone cables exiting, all centralized here in this utility closet, most contained within or on rack shelves.The server rack is necessarily compact because of the limited available space on the bottom of the closet. It fits fairly snug but allows air circulation all around it, allows a main power strip before the rack, allows a dedicated work strip light, & also the mounting of fiber interface & transmitter, cable connection interfaces, phone VOIP interface, & a battery back up bank.The server rack must be in that restricted space and must be pulled out in order to clean behind it, change or add wiring or troubleshoot.So it’s important not to have too much additional stuff added to our rack as our space is already finite with little “wiggle room”.These little screw onto the rack hooks stick out once installed no more than the previously existing bundles of wires stuck out, so they do not cause any further inhibition of access to our rack & actually they reduce the back side sticking out situation.This helps keep wires dangling about less (reducing air bouncing off big clumps of wires in the air flow areas so more air gets to pass thru & there is now less time for dust to attract & form into “dust bunnies”).All the wires running into the rack now being more centrally collected, we are more likely to pull out & clean as there is less hazard of snagging a rambling wire when they are routed better with these rack hook guides in place.Since they are U1 size & not wide, they are very versatile, can go anywhere we need them, either adding to existing screwed connections or adding into open rack holes with the provider screws they provided.You could probably do this job with lots of locking plastic wire ties, but I like that these can be used over & over & are less environmentally harmful (removing & throwing away old wire ties, clipping ends off newly installed ties) — especially when we do mass upgrades of things like short connector ethernet wires that bridge from our main switch to the network in/out panel — that would be at least 20 some wire ties thrown away, 20 some new ties clipped & the clippings thrown away — eliminated by using these rack hooks which need little if any wire tie assistance around the server rack itself.These are “sexy” & organized (in internet system rack installers’ eyes), they help you to maximize your equipment air flow, help cut down dirt accumulating in hanging down wires, & cut down on throw away plastic waste.Recommended.