How are the motherboard and disks cooled down on a server chassis?

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Francis Augusto Medeiros

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Hi,

I am considering moving my Supermicro X11SDV-4C-TP8F from a Fractal Design case to a server chassis like this one:

www.servercase.co.uk

2U Server Case w/ 8x 3.5" Hot-Swappable SATA/SAS Drive Bays, MiniSAS + 2 x 2.5" Internal O/S + 1 x Slimline DVD - Server Case

www.servercase.co.uk www.servercase.co.uk

I've seen that cases like this one have a ventilation wall and the fans point to one direction. In setups like this, how does both the motherboard and the disks are cooled down?

I will have a cooler for the CPU, but I wonder if more coolers need to be installed, or the fans will cool down the whole system as they are.

On my desktop case, each zone has their own fans to ensure that both the motherboard and the disks are cooled down, but I haven't quite yet understood how both components on a server chassis get cooled down.

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Francis
 
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There are 4 fans that move air over all components? That's all that's required...
 
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They pull air through the drive bays and push it over the MB. Normally the CPU would have a passive heatsink with fins aligned front-back. In some cases they include an air shroud or other mechanism to ensure enough air flows over the CPU heatsink. But for that MB in that chassis you should be fine without any kind of air shroud.
 
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PigLover said:
They pull air through the drive bays and push it over the MB. Normally the CPU would have a passive heatsink with fins aligned front-back. In some cases they include an air shroud or other mechanism to ensure enough air flows over the CPU heatsink. But for that MB in that chassis you should be fine without any kind of air shroud.
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Great! Thanks a lot @PigLover ! I am also considering keep using the CPU fan to ensure it will cool enough.
 
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PigLover said:
Can't hurt. It should also allow you to run the fans in the fan wall slower which should make it much quieter.
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That's the idea. Although I might replace the fans with Noctua Fans so that the drives can be kept as cool as possible without generating too much noise. The server will be on a basement, but it's a shared basement, so I don't want to annoy anyone with too much noise.
 
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Francis Augusto Medeiros said:
but I haven't quite yet understood how both components on a server chassis get cooled down
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The fans pull the air through the front bays and the backplane and push the air through the chassis to the rear. In order to push the air through the chassis and through the fins of heatsinks the vendors use fans that produce high static pressure.
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Can't hurt. It should also allow you to run the fans in the fan wall slower which should make it much quieter.
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I tried different combinations for a x10sdv on a 3u supermicro chassis and the best result for noise and cooling capacity was with an active heatsink + airshroud.
 
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i386 said:
The fans pull the air through the front bays and the backplane and push the air through the chassis to the rear. In order to push the air through the chassis and through the fins of heatsinks the vendors use fans that produce high static pressure.

I tried different combinations for a x10sdv on a 3u supermicro chassis and the best result for noise and cooling capacity was with an active heatsink + airshroud.
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Er... What's an airshroud? :)
 
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