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Cooling Fans in Dell Server

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  • 08-08-2010 1:52pm
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    Head The Wall
    Registered Users Posts: 2,892 ✭✭✭


    I have a Poweredge 4600 which I am going using for some Training and testing at home but nothing intensive.

    It's a rackmount unit and it has six fans which are fairly noisy to have running in the house. What would your opinions be on taking them all out and leaving the cover of it. alternatively I could try and get a quieter version of the fans in it. I know removing the fans is not an ideal solution but it basically will be doing no work just sitting there

    I'll just be running 1 IDE drive in it which will reduce the HD heat.


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    corkcomp
    Registered Users Posts: 5,114 ✭✭✭corkcomp


    Head The Wall wrote: »
    I have a Poweredge 4600 which I am going using for some Training and testing at home but nothing intensive.

    It's a rackmount unit and it has six fans which are fairly noisy to have running in the house. What would your opinions be on taking them all out and leaving the cover of it. alternatively I could try and get a quieter version of the fans in it. I know removing the fans is not an ideal solution but it basically will be doing no work just sitting there

    I'll just be running 1 IDE drive in it which will reduce the HD heat.

    not a good idea.. the PE servers will shutdown when certain temp thresholds are breached! eventhough you can change this setting the fans are there for a reason and should only get really loud when the need for extra cooling arises.


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    ressem
    Registered Users Posts: 2,426 ✭✭✭ressem


    It's a 4U server case, so depending on the processors and load you probably could get away with quieter fans.

    You'd have to keep the fans feeding air to the power supplies.

    What sort of testing and training are you looking to do though? Just leaving these things plugged in (and off) uses enough ESB and heat to justify a cheap new desktop or self build which would be faster.


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    shoegirl
    Registered Users Posts: 2,021 ✭✭✭shoegirl


    I know the feeling. I have a 2650 with 7 fans at least and its very loud.

    I wouldn't disconnect them though, what you could do is investigate soldering in newer, more hitech quiet fans. Would be a little work but might help. That model is about 4-6 years old, I am sure you can probably get more noise efficient models.


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    kdouglas
    Registered Users Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭kdouglas


    Might be easier and cheaper to just get a cloud/virtual hosting solution instead?


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