"Server room" AKA Closet... Temps?

[iamdarkyoshi]

I have a mediaserver, router, and modem in my closet. The AP is elsewhere. Can I close the doors to my closet and have the pc stay cool enough? It has a first gen i5, 3 hard drives, and a cheapie PSU (dont care, came with the CM case and isnt running a gpu)

I am worried about overheating.

The pc is usually idle, and sometimes does fileserver things, and sometimes plex server things.

The closet is one of those closets with two sliding doors.

[JoaoPRSousa]

It won't overheat if the room has some ventilation.

[AnonymousGuy]

My laundry room is my server room and even with halfway decent ventilation, I can easily exceed 105F air temperature in the middle of the room.  If you go up to the ceiling to measure temperature it's 10F hotter.

 

If your PC is idle most of the time and you have a fan on whatever mechanical hard drives you're running then you should be OK.  Humans don't like 115F but computers don't really mind it.

[iamdarkyoshi]

It won't overheat if the room has some ventilation.

thats the thing though. The closet, if closed, has nearly no airflow. But its kinda a big closet.

[JoaoPRSousa]

thats the thing though. The closet, if closed, has nearly no airflow. But its kinda a big closet.

 

Add some vents on the top of the walls or something, so that hot air can exit.

[iamdarkyoshi]

My laundry room is my server room and even with halfway decent ventilation, I can easily exceed 105F air temperature in the middle of the room.  If you go up to the ceiling to measure temperature it's 10F hotter.

 

If your PC is idle most of the time and you have a fan on whatever mechanical hard drives you're running then you should be OK.  Humans don't like 115F but computers don't really mind it.

since noise is not a concern, I have three ~1500rpm filtered fans pushing air through it. One directly through thr hdd

[AnonymousGuy]

thats the thing though. The closet, if closed, has nearly no airflow. But its kinda a big closet.

 

Consider replacing the closet doors with a few layers of moving blankets.  They provide great sound insulation and allow airflow to seep in and out.

 

Oh yeah that reminds me, before I moved my serever to my laundry room it was in an entertainment center cutout that's meant to hold a projection TV.  No ventillation except the moving blankets acting as a curtain over the thing and while it got hot, it was OK.

 

EDIT: and to attach moving blankets, use a staple gun with 1/2" staples.  Works great and the staples are removable.

[rcarteraz]

My buddy has his server in the closest of his spare bedroom and tapped into the AC duct through the ceiling to keep his cool. Maybe you could do something like that if you're worried? It didn't take too much work.

[Curufinwe_wins]

Or just make a cutout on your closet door and slap a fan on it that you can turn on when it's under heavy loads. (Or quiet ones that just run constantly.)