Recent content by scotrod

Thanks a bunch for the help! If I understood correctly, your first suggestion might be the safest one for me (since I'm not experienced either server hardware nor doing ghetto mods) - just checking the thermal pads and eventually replacing them? I think that the larger part of the cooler...

Unfortunately, I think not. Upon checking the bios, the first option I have is the "Optimal Cooling". Stupid question: If the heatsink uses thermal pads, can I remove the pads and use just a thermal paste instead?

Hey! I have a homelab HPE ML350 GEN9 server that is fairly quiet and cool during the winter, but in summer time one of the fans spins up a lot, because of the RAID controller (Smart Array P440ar) that is running around ~70° Celsuis while the server is idle/not doing any heavy tasks in...