Hello all - just joined these forums after lurking and reading the site intermittently over the past year. Mostly a software guy, although I've always had some power-hungry hardware lying around the home since my university days. I still have a couple of Silicon Graphics and Alpha workstations (O2/Octane2) from back then, but the gear that'd interest you folks is the following:
- 2U half-depth SGI/Rackable server w/ Tyan S7012 MB, 2x Xeon X5650 CPUs and 72GB RAM
- an old HP microserver that's begging for a FreeNAS installation
Given the noise and power consumption, I'm sorely tempted to ditch the (really loud) Rackable box and go the Xeon-D route - especially after reading the articles and threads here - but can't yet justify the outlay. I mostly use it to run CentOS VMs via KVM atop a simple Ubuntu LTS server install.
Would you folks have any advice or recommendations for reducing the noise level on this machine? I've put together a few desktop machines, but don't have much other DIY experience with servers of this type. Thanks.
- 2U half-depth SGI/Rackable server w/ Tyan S7012 MB, 2x Xeon X5650 CPUs and 72GB RAM
- an old HP microserver that's begging for a FreeNAS installation
Given the noise and power consumption, I'm sorely tempted to ditch the (really loud) Rackable box and go the Xeon-D route - especially after reading the articles and threads here - but can't yet justify the outlay. I mostly use it to run CentOS VMs via KVM atop a simple Ubuntu LTS server install.
Would you folks have any advice or recommendations for reducing the noise level on this machine? I've put together a few desktop machines, but don't have much other DIY experience with servers of this type. Thanks.