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  • I’ve been in charge of relocating several data centres.

    We tore everything down, servers out of racks etc.

    All servers, fabric switches drive arrays etc were individually wrapped in bubble wrap then the heavy removalists cloth then into the large metal moving boxes (1500mmx1500mmx1500mm roughly) before being stacked so they couldn’t move around, followed by ratchet straps securing groups of kit together.

    All this was done by professional removalists - no reason you can’t do it though.

    Basically the principle is flexible padding (bubble wrap) to allow for movement close to the device without impacting it, heavy shock absorbing material (the felt), then put into a robust container (metal box) so limiting impact risk.

    I’d strongly recommend NOT to leave them in the rack - a couple of screws vibrate loose and then that device drops onto the one below it, bounces up and down through the journey and wrecks them both.

    If it’s a mile up the road, sure, you’ll probably be fine and get away with it, multiple hours on the road ? It’s not surviving it.





  • Try using OBS for the screen capture, it should work with hardware acceleration on. Install on yr existing windows system.

    If not try downloading a linux mint iso and burning that to a usb (instructions on the mint homepage). It’s a “live” boot you can just boot off it and try without installing. I’m fairly sure you can boot it, install OBS on it and then test a screen capture (ie open a browser, start prime, open obs and start a screen capture). Be aware you’ve made a bottleneck on the USB (slow throughput compared to ssd) so you won’t go long before it chokes through not being able to write fast enough. Proof of concept.

    However if it works then look at installing a dual boot mint next to windows a full install will use the hard drive and not bottleneck

    Basically, it’s free and it won’t break anything to try the live disk. If it works it’ll be a lot cheaper than buying a whole extra Mac