I have a Mac Mini 2009 (3,1) on a shelf in my rack in the utility room that runs my Plex media server. You wouldn’t know it was there unless you looked. The DVR for my camera system makes more noise.
I bought a new enterprise grade HP Ethernet switch when I set up networking in the new house. It’s a fan-less 24 port model that even has a couple of ports for multimode fiber transceivers, which will never be used, I suspect. It’s so much better than the Linksys 16 port switch I had before, which did have a fan. I’m very pleased with it. I’ve got a 3,1 and a 4,1 cheesegrater in storage as backups. The 3,1 I retired from service, and the 4,1 was a previous machine I was running until I stumbled across the one I currently use. They take a fair amount of space in the guest room closet, but it’s nice to know they’re just a few steps away and ready to go should something happen to this machine. -D > On Mar 18, 2020, at 2:14 PM, Jim Cathey via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > I have two active cheese graters in my little work-from-home office, close > enough > to touch, and with the exception of the 'bad RAM' episode they never make any > significant noise. (Some RAM went bad, causing the thermal management > subsystem > to decide to try to eject the RAM from the box via increased airflow, or so > it seemed. > They get LOUD when in thermal distress, either real or perceived.) > > Of much greater impact was replacing my hovercraft-ey gigabit Ethernet switch > with > a fanless 24-port model, followed by replacing the G4 (sawtooth) with a 2014 > Mac Mini. > The G4's fan was nice enough as fans go, but it was always running. (The G4 > doesn't > have fan-speed adjustments, and everything newer does.) The G4 performed well > as our backup and web server, for years, but it's now in storage. > > -- 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
