Quietest 1U Rack Server?

[William Warren]

I have a 1650 and it's a jet engine.

webster at lexmark.com wrote:
> Why not PE1600 or 2600 ?
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> Gary R. Webster
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> "Richard Hurt" <rnhurt at gmail.com> 
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> 02/05/2008 09:27 AM
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> 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.  :)
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Thanx for all the input guys!
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> Later...
>   Richard
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> 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?
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>> /Peter
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> 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.
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> They'll actually fit in a rack shelf laid on their side as well.
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