I'd go with a rack and rack cases, if you can. There's a reason why the industry uses it.
I find that once you have a bunch of equipment piled up it makes a huge hard to manage mess, and that happens a lot faster than you'd expect. Before finally getting a rack I ended up with with a bunch of hardware caked in dust because it was all lying in such a precarious way that I was afraid to touch anything in there.
I find that once you have a bunch of equipment piled up it makes a huge hard to manage mess, and that happens a lot faster than you'd expect. Before finally getting a rack I ended up with with a bunch of hardware caked in dust because it was all lying in such a precarious way that I was afraid to touch anything in there.