I've got all my hardware in a basement closet. It mostly used to be in a rack, but I've been trying to be more space efficient, similar to what Nitrobass24 did.
My closet has nine foot ceilings, and the opening to the closet is only about seven feet tall. I've put all my stuff up in that upper ~2 feet of space (since it would otherwise be unused). The problem is, all the hot air seems to pool up there, as there's no way to vent it. I just moved my fileserver up to that area, and temperatures are about 10 degrees hotter across the board (CPU, hard drives, motherboard, etc). I also have one of these USB temperature sensors monitoring ambient temperature. Again, there's a 10 degree difference between the upper area and the lower area.
Temperatures are a little on the high side now, but within an acceptable range... but this won't be the case when summer comes!
Anybody encountered this before? Can I get away with simply putting in a return vent or two? Or will I need an actual exhaust fan actively pushing air out of the closet?
Anyone encountered a similar situation before?
Thanks!
My closet has nine foot ceilings, and the opening to the closet is only about seven feet tall. I've put all my stuff up in that upper ~2 feet of space (since it would otherwise be unused). The problem is, all the hot air seems to pool up there, as there's no way to vent it. I just moved my fileserver up to that area, and temperatures are about 10 degrees hotter across the board (CPU, hard drives, motherboard, etc). I also have one of these USB temperature sensors monitoring ambient temperature. Again, there's a 10 degree difference between the upper area and the lower area.
Temperatures are a little on the high side now, but within an acceptable range... but this won't be the case when summer comes!
Anybody encountered this before? Can I get away with simply putting in a return vent or two? Or will I need an actual exhaust fan actively pushing air out of the closet?
Anyone encountered a similar situation before?
Thanks!