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Power, Data, and Cable Management Arms?
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So standard wisdom is to run a CMA up one side of your rack and data and networking up and down the other side of the rack. It is known. This is the way. So uh, obviously if you're pulling your servers out twice a month for quick hardware swaps, upgrades, tweaks, and cleaning, like I do, you'll be using cable management arms to make sure your cables don't get splinched in the slide. Pretty basic stuff here. Now the real question. If you mount, say, all your power cables on the hinge side, and your data cables on the latch side, whichever side you mount your CMA on will have to have either power or data cables run across the rear of the rack to the CMA opening around back. What do you do about that awkward run of power or data across the rear of the rack over to the CMA ? Seems quite ugly to just have a bundle of cables all the way across. What's the correct or intended way to manage that awkward run from side to side?

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