[Cialug] Noise

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

Believe or not, I do actually have an underground fruit cellar outside.
Its about 15ft from the house... Hmmm... maybe I could run ethernet out
there... or just bridge a couple linksys 802.11g routers.... Hmmm...
Hmmm.... 

:) Dave

On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 08:41, n.d wrote:
> quick thought. if you had one of them fancy dancy wine cellars that has 
> the humidity/temperature control do-dads, would that be good for storing 
> servers?
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> just a thought.
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> Nathan C. Smith wrote:
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> >Mini-itx!  Seriously, unless you are rendering or have serious processor
> >demands.  They are even available as rack-mounts for a little more $$$.  Add
> >a 3ware raid-controller for mirroring and they are fairly capable machines.
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> >To respond to your question, put the computers someplace where the droning
> >will no longer bother you or people you care about.  If they go in the
> >laundry room put quiet power supplies in them to spare your laundry-doer.
> >If they are near the laundry, worry about dust and maybe static.
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> >Rack computers don't seem to place low noise as a priority, rather airflow
> >and cooling.  They could very well end up being louder than your existing
> >machines, take that into consideration.
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> >-Nate
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> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Dave J. Hala Jr. [mailto:dave at 58ghz.net] 
> >Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 7:37 AM
> >To: Cialug
> >Subject: [Cialug] Noise
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> >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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