[Cialug] Noise

[Chris Hilton]

I actually like your idea.   I think the noise would go down a lot, you
might want to test and see how your house carries sound from that room.
And send the wife to a day spa!  When she comes back she'll say "oh
good, you finally got rid of those noisy computers!"

Course, when she opens the closet 3 days later....

On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 07:36 -0500, 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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