[yabones]

The folks that run the colo I keep our servers in would beat me to death with a shoe if I did either of these things:

- Mount something in a rack not firmly attached to brackets or a shelf

- Install anything with a battery larger than you'd find in a RAID card

Not to mention all the other ways this is sub-par in terms of airflow, density, serviceability, out-of-band management, etc.

I get the allure of it, but I wouldn't really want my gear anywhere near a bunch of laptops stuck in a cabinet.

[hsbauauvhabzb]

It’s not about your battery, it’s the battery in all the other laptops that would have me concerned. Plenty of fire risk.

[justinclift]

Not just the batteries. User supplied power bricks sounds like an incredibly bad idea at pretty much any scale.

[hsbauauvhabzb]

Wait, power bricks are a fire hazard?

[justinclift]

Yep. Reputably manufactured ones (Dell, HP, Apple, etc) are probably fine.

But the cheapo replacement ones that you see people buy from Amazon, Ali Express, Ebay, etc... can be really not good. :(

[nmbrskeptix]

User supplied ones are. Frayed wires galore

[freehorse]

Not sure why the comment above is downvoted, but I have been twice in the same room with somebody's power brick starting producing fumes while dying.

[precommunicator]

They say:

> We might modify your laptop to remove or power down the battery