[Cialug] Noise

[Theron Conrey]

I'll take "e" with tunneled vnc when needed for $1000 please Alex.

Theron


Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:

>Suppose that you had a couple of rack mount servers in your home office.
>What if you cut a hole in a closet door and screwed a rack mount frame
>onto the door and then you modified a cold air return in the closet to
>vent the hot air from the servers away. Would the result be:
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>a) the noise and heat from servers would be considerably less
>b) the noise would be about the same and the heat less
>c) the noise would echo through the house via the cold air return
>d) the wife would freak
>e) some one asks why you just didn't put the servers in the basement in
>the laundry room and ssh into them as needed.
>f) You win the geek of year award
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>What else are people doing with their home offices? In my current home
>office, I'm using a network of 3 pcs. The heat was a problem until I
>added a second cold air return near the cieling. Now the room
>temperature is consistent with the rest of the house.
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>I'm about to move into a new house and at that time I'd like to switch
>over to using the servers and ditch the pc's, but the noise is a huge
>issue. I'd also rather not have to remove/change or slow the speed of
>any of the fans in the servers.
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>:) Dave
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