Hey,
so I have purchased a few old enterprise switches, they have a great feature to price ratio and can be had for next to nothing.
Unfortunately they are to loud for most people to be used in office settings where the switch is in the same room as workstations, etc.
I have a D-Link DGS-3427 at my house I modified with some 40x40x20mm Noctuna NF-A4x20 fans. Unfortunately I had to re-wire them and lost the reading in the Web GUI of the fan speed.
Latest acquisition is a couple HPe Procurve J8762A 10/100 POE switches with GBIC backbone for powering IP cameras. I heard they are pretty noisy and I don't want my client to curse the deities any time they're around it.
I'm wondering if anyone knows of a good source for fans that are plug-in replacements for network switches that have all the wires in the right spot and are quieter than typical enterprise switch fans. Trying to get them as cheap as possible.
eBay has some 'replacement kits' with either Sunon f99042 or f4509f fans but they want like $20/fan which is ridiculous for what I'm sure is a $3-7 fan. Does anyone have a good line on these or other suitable fans?
Edit: After doing more digging I came around a sunon F9831W which is being sold as a Cisco replacement fan
PC fan wire colors seem to be Black -> Red -> Yellow
These network replacement fans appear to be Red -> Black -> Yellow
Am I on to something?
so I have purchased a few old enterprise switches, they have a great feature to price ratio and can be had for next to nothing.
Unfortunately they are to loud for most people to be used in office settings where the switch is in the same room as workstations, etc.
I have a D-Link DGS-3427 at my house I modified with some 40x40x20mm Noctuna NF-A4x20 fans. Unfortunately I had to re-wire them and lost the reading in the Web GUI of the fan speed.
Latest acquisition is a couple HPe Procurve J8762A 10/100 POE switches with GBIC backbone for powering IP cameras. I heard they are pretty noisy and I don't want my client to curse the deities any time they're around it.
I'm wondering if anyone knows of a good source for fans that are plug-in replacements for network switches that have all the wires in the right spot and are quieter than typical enterprise switch fans. Trying to get them as cheap as possible.
eBay has some 'replacement kits' with either Sunon f99042 or f4509f fans but they want like $20/fan which is ridiculous for what I'm sure is a $3-7 fan. Does anyone have a good line on these or other suitable fans?
Edit: After doing more digging I came around a sunon F9831W which is being sold as a Cisco replacement fan
PC fan wire colors seem to be Black -> Red -> Yellow
These network replacement fans appear to be Red -> Black -> Yellow
Am I on to something?
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