On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 17:57 -0400, Kurt Guenther wrote: > > I can tolerate some noise, but I prefer not to work next to hair drier > all day.
Remember that next time you get your hair cut and comes time to tip :) > I suspect many of the server fans are just "I'm a server too" > noise makers. I completely understand, I have lived with a very noticeable humming sound for years. Kinda odd when the power goes out and it's silent. Though at other times kinda nice to drown out other outside noises. For me heat tends to be a bigger concern than noise. But ideally, silent with no heat signature would be ideal :) > It sounds like the SDD's have really come along. Their speed profiles > are very impressive. They would make a nice /usr and /var file system > under gentoo. Sure and run with like /tmp as a 2GB or larger ramdisk ;) But I doubt you can really hear a hard drive in most desktops or anything but laptop these days. Most other things will make more noise. If your really going all out, sure SDD. Probably better lifespan as well with no moving parts. Power supply, chassis fans, and cpu/proc fan tend to be the noisiest. Though some systems are designed without a cpu/proc fan. With a big heat sink and adequate airflow from other fans. Worse case you can always see about replacing all fans, short of the power supply after the fact. Might have to spend some $ there, but that's where most noise will come from. Thus if you want it to be quite, likely can't go with cheap fans, power supply, etc. I prefer Supermicro and Tyan stuff, but I doubt either offer anything that would be quite. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] List archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml
