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That 2008 server room flood in Minneapolis taught me to label every damn cable
I was a junior tech when the AC line burst at 2AM, water dripping right onto the patch panel, so I spent 4 hours tracing unlabeled wires with a tone generator while the boss yelled from home, and now I label everything with colored tape before I even plug it in, anyone else got a disaster story that changed their setup routine?
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victorb742mo ago
Skip the labels, just use a marker and write on the jacket near the plug. Color tape fades, peels off, and drives you nuts when you gotta redo it anyway.
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piperwhite2mo ago
Marker ink rubs off on your hands after a while, so how do you keep the writing readable when the cables get yanked and coiled?
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