Yeh i was worried about not having any forced air cooling for the NICs but they never gave me any issues. I would recommend not just stacking like i did in the pic though, they do still get hot!
Stupidly i never measured the power but given the low power CPU i can’t imagine it being anywhere...
Some pics :) Some external before and after and during the swap! All 4 hosts have the Lenovo bracket from the 4 port NIC card option now (my gosh were they a pain to source), unlike in the pics with a stack of 2 hosts where the bottom one is missing a bracket. Not perfect but a pretty tidy...
Will take some fresh pics tomorrow but will have a look and see if I have anything fromt he archives that I took at the time and get them up in a minute!
Hi there, thanks for looking! New to the forums but been lurking around these parts for a long time. Patrick actually asked me to do a write up on these host but the last 2 years has been absolutely mental and I just never got around to doing it, which is a bit of a shame as I did have to do...
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