application that provide a webUI for downloading/uploading files - a la google drive / drop box?
Filebrowser is free/open source and does exactly that
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any way to get this to fit directly in the rack with normal cage nuts?
If you don’t have the rails, you could sit it on top of a shelf, but it would be really unstable. These things are too heavy to support just from the front, hence the rail kit.
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