Quietest 1U Rack Server?

[Landreth, Kevin]

Just another note to this as well, Dell servers are specifically
designed for hot-row/cold-row configurations (enclosures with upward air
moment end up baking the middle units).  Since these are placed in an
office, I'm going to assume that you don't have a hot and cold row ;)

Towers are better overall if you don't have a datacenter or closed
environment to deal with the extended capacity.  Personally, I used a
bread rack ($40 @ lowes/homedepot) and put my tower units on it do deal
with density.  Just as stable, easy cable management with Velcro straps
and I got a higher drive density than with towers.

While 1U's and 2U's are nice, they just don't make sense sometimes...

--
Thanks,
Kevin Landreth, RHCE
Technology Architect 


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Stephan Wonczak
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 9:49 AM
To: Linux-PowerEdge Mailing List
Subject: Re: Quietest 1U Rack Server?


   Hi Richard!

On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Marios Pittas wrote:

> 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,

   Well, I do :-)
   We have a bunch of these in our machine room. While very nice
machines 
that simply keep running without problems, they are ... not very quiet.
To 
say the least. In fact, when a colleague had one of them in his office,
it 
sounded as if he had a vacuum cleaner going at full power. So, forget 
about havong one of these in your office.

<snip>
> Finally, again I found that the price of tower
> servers is much cheaper than rack servers.
<snip>

   I would also put my money on a tower server for your office. Rack 
servers usually don't run quiet and as Marios wrote above, usually are a

bit more expensive. If you really don't need the high packing factor, 
don't go with a rack based solution.

   My two cents,

 	Dipl. Chem. Dr. Stephan Wonczak

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