Noisy server
 

Can anyone recommend a soundproof box I can put my noisy server in. When it was last used on a daily basis it was in a tall cupboard thing in my former office. After a year of grief I have at last managed to recover it, it's a l-o-n-g story, only to find that in a home environment the noise from the fan is driving me nuts. It's a IBM System x3400.

It's got loads of bells and whistles and it was hideously expensive so I don't want to have to bin it but even deaf old me, I can't work with the din:mad:

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The problem with a box is heat dissapation...you enclose that server without some kind of external cooling (ie air con) and it's going to go pop regardless.

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Sell it minus the HDDs on ebay and buy something smaller and more powerful with the money.

Seriously.

Oh Hong - I finally got to those servers I was talking to you about at the AR - you still interested?

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Can't you stick it in the garage or something? I've got a network harddrive that was annoying me so I stuck it in the attic and dropped a network cable down inside the wall and out a blank socket

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Yes that's a thought... would be a bit of a long cable run but I spose I could work round it:scratch::scratch:

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Best idea IMO.

Pm me the spec matey!

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Change the fans, thats what i did.

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IBM server, unlikley you can change them as they tend to have custom fittings and pinouts for hotswap capability.

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Not so true, there are cases that are used to deaden the sound down though baffling but still provide airflow for a few servers.
These are ubber expensive imo though.

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nothing a multmeter and a bit of splicing wont fix :smt040