Quietest 1U Rack Server?

[Marios Pittas]

Hi Richard

I have deployed SC430 in medical environments and
have found them to be ever so quiet even when
deployed next to staff or close to patients. In
my experience, most rack mount servers are very
noisy.. I could not deploy any of them in clinics
as the noise is extremely high.

I have not tried the 2650 specifically, but have
had first hand experience with 1650, 2450, 1425,
and 860. Although I am not sure of the specific
model that you mention (2650),  I feel that
before buying, it would be very worthwhile
switching on and listening (as we write I do have
2 SC430s next to me - Win 2k Server and CentOS
5.1, noise level negligible with 3 more coming in
on Monday). 

Finally, again I found that the price of tower
servers is much cheaper than rack servers. A
SC430 can be had for $350 Sing Dollars (Core 2
Duo - a one year old machine) while the 1650 (a
single P3 - a 7? year old machine) will cost you
$380 Sing Dollars (and that's by far 2nd hand
dealers best price). For that, if you are
concerned with uptime etc, just buy a couple of
SC430's just to keep as spare, and when one goes
down simply switch between them. Also, the 6th
generation probably still runs on SCSI, while the
SC4x0 run on SATA - thus cheaper and larger had
disks (however slower).

Hope that helps, then again don't let it deter
you for what you are about to do - I had a 4650
(?!) next to me for a while, I know :)

-- Marios

--- Richard Hurt <rnhurt at gmail.com> wrote:

> These are all great suggestions.  I like the
> sealed rack system that
> Hostmaster and Tom suggested.  However, I
> already have my (standard, 4-post,
> open) rack and am not keen on replacing it. 
> Also as I don't have a raised
> floor or anything and no way to really control
> my office temperature I'm
> concerned about overheating.  That's why I got
> an open rack, that and its
> cheaper and easier to work on.  :)
> 
> I really like the 2U suggestion and hadn't
> really thought about it being
> quieter because of larger, slower fans.  I'm
> going to look into it a bit
> more.  It looks like you can get some used
> 2650s for a pretty good price.
> 
> As far as using desktop tower workstations, I
> don't think I like that too
> much in terms of uptime and serviceability. 
> With rack mounted boxes its
> simple to replace fans, power supplies, and
> hard drives on the fly without
> taking the box down.  They also have things
> like redundant power supplies
> that make them harder to knock off-line.
> 
> Thanx for all the input guys!
> 
> Later...
>   Richard
> 
> On Feb 5, 2008 8:35 AM, Jim Nelson
> <jim.nelson at neteasyinc.com> wrote:
> 
> > Peter Kjellstrom wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Richard Hurt
> wrote:
> > >> Hello all,
> > >>
> > >> I know noise is not normally a concern for
> rack mounted servers, but my
> > >> "data center" is in my small office and I
> would like to make it as
> > >> comfortable as possible.
> > >
> > > Why not use workstation class machines
> instead of rackmount servers?
> > >
> > > /Peter
> > >
> >
> > Indeed - we have a number of SC440s in our
> office (fileserver, router/VPN,
> > backup nameserver, VoIP) and our PoE injector
> makes more noise than all 4
> > of the
> > boxes combined.
> >
> > They'll actually fit in a rack shelf laid on
> their side as well.
> >
> >
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