Quietest 1U Rack Server?

[William Warren]

My wife has nothing but racked PE towers that have redudant power and 
hot swap bays.  those features ar not only restricted to 2u or smaller.

Robert Becker Cope wrote:
> "Richard Hurt" <rnhurt at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> How often have you had to service your fans, power supplies, and hard drives?
> I've had hundreds of systems in production and it is a fairly rare event, in my
> experience. Also, good server class towers will allow you to swap hard drives
> and power supplies in the same way that a rack mounted system will. I'm not
> trying to say you're making the wrong decision, but you seem to be making it
> based on incorrect information. Take a look at the PowerEdge 2900, for example.
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> robert
> 
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