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> Rackmount server in home people so often brag about on the Internet is a very loud and impractical way to run network services from home, unless you have sepa
by cyphar 7y ago
> Rackmount server in home people so often brag about on the Internet is a very loud and impractical way to run network services from home, unless you have separate room for it.
I definitely wouldn't have my rackmount server in my bedroom, but instead I have it in a separate office/study room.
If you get decent fans (like Noctua) it's definitely not that loud, though the main problem is it's hard to find a cheap power supply that has decent (or replaceable) fans for a 2U rack. You can replace the fans on PSUs by cutting wires and soldering but that's always felt like a bad idea to me.
- zzzcpan 7y agoThere is nothing wrong with cutting wires and soldering and for fans you don't even need any soldiering. Although if you were to solder, speed of all those brushless dc fans can be easily controlled via voltage. Meaning that dc-dc step down converter (costs less than $1) is usually enough to make a fan quiet or just putting it on a 5v rail instead of 12v, although that might make it too slow to be usable. Also PC fans vendors suck, they overprice fans like crazy, sort of similar how expensive audio equipment is overpriced for audiophiles. Just use fans from a decent non-PC fans vendor, like Sunon. I wouldn't use rackmount cases at home though, they are not designed for low noise at all and fans are not the only problem. Noise from a bunch of vibrating HDDs is not as easily fixable as from fans, not in a rackmount case.