My job has me working within a six feet of a dual Xeon server. It has at least five noisy fans, and sounds like a vacuum cleaner.
I'm considering a ways to quiet this box, and one of them is to buy some fans that claim to be quiet to replace the current ones. I have no idea how much this would help - for all I know, it has them already.
Does anyone know whether truly quiet fans exist, or is this just an advertising ploy?
Another possibility is to buy some ethernet KVM tranceivers and move the machine elsewhere. Besides the $$$ these cost, I'm short on alternative space.
If you've had a good experience with quieter fans, or have come up with a better solution for this, please let me know. Replacing the system isn't an option, but I've thought about putting it in a quieter box.
I can't scrape up enough for one of these:
http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/20040115/index.html
But it sure would be sweet!
-- Scott C.
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