I bought an old rackmount server from a colleague who had in turn bought a bunch in an auction. I lived in New York City at the time and had to physically carr

I bought an old rackmount server from a colleague who had in turn bought a bunch in an auction. I lived in New York City at the time and had to physically carry the server for about 20 blocks home from the train station. The entire way home I though "Man, this thing is HEAVY" I then got home, plugged it in and realized it was LOUD. I though "I know, I'll disconnect all the fans". Turns out even with all of the fans disconnected it was still the loudest thing in the apartment. I ended up ditching that server and just buying a refurbished small form factor HP desktop machine. That worked great, was quiet and ran find until a Hurricane Sandy related power surge fried it.