I rarely hear my fans unless I’m rendering video, and even then not that much. As Jim said, I hear my hard drives more than my fans.
There were rack mount versions sort of until 2010 - the Xserve products, but I don’t think any of them were as powerful as the cheesegraters. At least not past the 3,1. I had a couple of these and an Xserve RAID in my garage some years back. They were horribly inefficient and produced massive amounts of heat as one would expect from an enterprise grade server. However, I did like the 14TBs of storage on the Xserve RAID! That thing was a beast. I retired them and sold them off. It was a silly exercise on my part, fortunately, I got them cheap as working pulls from a local parochial school that was upgrading their infrastructure so I didn’t lose any money in the deal. -D > On Mar 17, 2020, at 10:04 PM, Jim Cathey via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > >> I wouldn't keep a cheese grater around for what I do, they're too big and >> noisy. > > They're big enough, but mine never make noise unless they get hot, which they > don't. > The hard disks inside make more noise seeking than the fans do. The all-metal > case is probably my favorite of all the computers they've ever made, and I > love > the drive sleds. > > Apple SHOULD have made a true rack-mount version, but they did not. Well, > they used > to, but I think sales were so flat that they decided not to any more. Can't > really blame them > for abandoning products that didn't make money. > > -- Jim > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
