Tripp Lite SRW6U Wall-Mount Rack Enclosure Review

The cabinet arrives fully assembled, so there is no build step: you bolt the wall plate up, hang the cabinet on its hooks and secure it. The frame is steel with a black powder-coat finish, and the 19-inch EIA/ECA-310-E width means standard rack gear bolts straight in.

Physical security is the reason many people pick an enclosed cabinet over an open frame. The front door is vented steel, lockable, removable and reversible, and the two side panels lock and come off. In a shared closet, a classroom or a retail back room, that keeps hands off the gear.

Inside, two vertical rails with square holes adjust in 7/8 in steps between 3 in and 16.5 in of equipment depth, so shallow devices sit where you want them rather than hanging back in the box. Cable enters through top and bottom ports measuring 9.812 by 2.35 in, each with a removable cover, and four fan ports (two top, two bottom) take the optional matching fan kit.

The load rating is 200 lb stationary, the warranty runs 5 years, and the cabinet carries UL/CSA 60950-1, RoHS and NOM marks and is rated IP20 when wall-mounted. The removable wall plate with hooks makes hanging a one-person job at 29 lb empty. Buyers on Amazon most often praise the size, sturdiness, mounting, installation and accessibility, and the reversible door gets called out as a plus.

Depth is the headline limit. At 16.5 in maximum equipment depth, full-depth servers, deep rack UPS units and rack-mount NAS are out. A short 1U server can physically fit, but the rear power cord leaves little room.

No fans are included, so the cabinet vents passively until you add the optional fan kit. The side panels have no fan cutouts, so airflow runs top to bottom only. There is also no rear door and no swing-out hinge: rear access means pulling a side panel or working from the front.

Wall bolts are not in the box, and the included rack hardware is limited to 12 sets of M6 cage nuts, screws and cup washers, enough for about three devices. The 200 lb rating includes the cabinet's own 29 lb, which leaves roughly 171 lb for gear.

The 6U height also fills fast: a patch panel, a switch, a cable manager and a 2U UPS are already 5U.

Network gear falls into rough depth classes, and the SRW6U covers one of them. Shallow devices under 11 in, like patch panels and small switches, sit comfortably. Switch-depth gear up to 16.5 in is this cabinet's class. Deep devices from 16.5 to 20.5 in and full-depth gear over 20.5 in are out of reach here.

A switch that measures 15 in deep leaves almost nothing behind it once the power cord is in.

On weight, 200 lb minus the 29 lb cabinet leaves about 171 lb for gear. A heavy 2U rack UPS alone can eat a third of that, so a tower UPS on the floor below is often the better plan.

The SRW6UKD is the same 6U, 16.5 in-deep switch-depth cabinet supplied unassembled. The SRW6U ships fully assembled, so it is the one to choose when you want to hang the cabinet without a build step. Pick the SRW6UKD if you would rather put the frame together yourself before it goes on the wall.