On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, rwali...@washdcmail.com wrote:
I agree completely with the ECC. It's for home use, so the power supply issue isn't huge (though if it's possible that's a plus). My concern with this particular option is noise. It will be in a closet, but one with louvered doors right off a room where people watch TV. Anything particularly loud would be an issue. The comments on Newegg make this sound pretty loud. Have you tried one outside of a server room environment?
Definitely lose the louvered doors and install solid-core doors. I have most of my stuff in a large closet. There is 8" ducting and duplex ventilation fans (Broan BRO-L250L, http://www.airshack.com/store/index.cfm?fuseaction=getproductpg&manuf=broan&series=losone%20i-in-line) to assure that there is always 250 CFM of air running through it. The fans are hung with nylon straps from the rafters in the attic so they are totally silent.
With the doors open, the gigabit ethernet switch is the noisiest but the doors block that high pitched noise. If the temperature hits 82.5 degrees, then the StorageTek 2540 fans go on high and then there is audible sound outside the room. The key to silence is to keep the equipment cool enough that their fans run on low speed. If the doors were replaced with solid core doors, then there would be a lot more silence.
Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
