One "fun" anecdote that I like to tell everyone. I was given a 1U server by a company I was working at. Some old ~2010 machine with 32GB of RAM and 2 CPUs. I an

One "fun" anecdote that I like to tell everyone. I was given a 1U server by a company I was working at. Some old ~2010 machine with 32GB of RAM and 2 CPUs. I anticipated noise but not quite that much, so I decided to move it to the exterior shed that had one outlet. This was in July in Canada so peeks of 33-34 celsius are expected but not much more than that. The shed was in the sun and would get pretty hot for humans, but I thought it would be fun to try it and worst case scenario it wouldn't last long. Turns out we had some intense heat for the entire week and the server was dead about 8 days after putting it in the shed. I opened it to see what had happened and several capacitors had popped. TLDR: Intense heat isn't good for 1U servers, but I bet you knew that already.