servers and noise

[Danielh90]

Hello I was just wondering is there a way to soundproof a server rack if I buy one and put it in my basement. I live in  a 1 story house with no upstairs only downstairs and the server rack would go downstairs. I know when I bought my dell poweredge 2950 I could hear the hole thing threw the whole house but I'm wondering if I bought a server rack and sound proof it some how if that would cancel the noise? Where do you guys put your server rack? 

[Electronics Wizardy]

You can make a 2950 quiet by adding reistors to the fans.

 

Stop using the 2950 and get something newer and quieter and lower power. Your paying hundreds a year in power to run it.

[Danielh90]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

You can make a 2950 quiet by adding reistors to the fans.

 

Stop using the 2950 and get something newer and quieter and lower power. Your paying hundreds a year in power to run it.

What do you recommend I get? that's quieter? 

[Mr.Meerkat]

there's the easy route and the hard route, for a noiseless server, you're gonna need to build a server out of standard consumer parts or at the very least change the fans and CPU coolers to something more consumer friendly .

 

If you can't change anything related to the server then 2 things that you could do that comes straight off my head is:

1. Get cool/cold fresh air into the room your server is situated in

2. maybe add noise dampening material to the room/server cabinet as although it's not going to remove all the noise, it will at lease help  

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, Danielh90 said:

What do you recommend I get? that's quieter? 

Low end custom desktop with a pentium or i3. If you want a rack server a r710 is much quieter and much lower power

[Danielh90]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

Low end custom desktop with a pentium or i3. If you want a rack server a r710 is much quieter and much lower power

Thank you. Once I switch to a intel build I'm planning on putting my amd build into a server chassis and put it in a server rack that will order. 

[AshleyAshes]

This seems to happen a lot on this forum.  Someone buys a cheap blade online only to find out that it's absolutely not designed to run in a home.  Granted some models have settings in their BIOS/config to switch the fans from 'Full blast all the time' to 'on demand, based on temperature demands' this doesn't apply to all.  A lower end desktop board in a nice roomie tower case is really the better way to go.

 

This for example is my i5 2300 server, in a big Corsair 750D case, ready to hold 12 3.5" drives, and it can hold more with some modifications.  With big 140mm fans it's sufficiently cooled without being a noise monters.   The Supernova P2 PSU doesn't even spin it's fan unless the PSU goes over 45'C:  (No it doesn't have that Radeon HD 6850 in it anymore)

 

 

Instead of complete blade kits, you can get a lot of odds and ends on eBay or such to build yourself an 'eBay Junkyard Server' basically, even older Xeon CPUs and memory if you wanted.  Or you can just get Q6600 kits or other similar older parts for not a lot of money.

[MatthewEnderle]