Finally caved and used a label maker for my server rack cables

I spent 4 hours tracing a single Cat6 line last Tuesday because I thought I could remember which port went where. After that I bought a $30 label maker and labeled everything in under 45 minutes. Anyone else stubborn about this until they wasted an afternoon?

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jason_kelly86d ago

Used to think label makers were for weirdos who had nothing better to do. Then I spent a Saturday ripping cables out of my patch panel because I wrote the port numbers in sharpie on a sticky note that fell off. Now I label EVERYTHING including the power cables. That little thing saved me more time than any tool I own.

the_sandra6d ago

You get it. That moment when you realize you spent hours fixing something that a 20 dollar label maker could have prevented in 5 minutes? That's a special kind of pain. I still have scars on my fingers from wrestling with a tangled mess of server cables that someone "organized" by color. Never again. Now I label the cables, the ports, the power strips, even the damn surge protectors. Makes life so much easier when you have to trace a line down later.