In search of 2 Rackmount Chassis' - Storage & VM host

[JimPhreak]

I'm on the hunt for a rack mountable chassis that can effectively cool (without sounding like a jet engine) a D-1540/1541 that at times has a heavy workload (consistently transcodes for 4-6 str8 hours daily). I can't seem to find many good options that focus on cooling. I don't need any hot swap bays as this will be a VM host and my storage will be on other servers.

EDIT: I've updated this thread to reflect the fact that I'm looking for 2 rackmount chassis'. One is for a 2 in 1 storage server (bulk media + fast all SSD ZFS pool). The other is for a VM host that will require no local disks.

 

[Patrick]

How large of a chassis?

One thing you can do to make the Xeon D cooling much more efficient is to use ducting.

 

[JimPhreak]

How large of a chassis?

One thing you can do to make the Xeon D cooling much more efficient is to use ducting.

Anything from 1U to 3U is what I have room for. Ducting is an interesting thought I hadn't considered.

 

[canta]

How large of a chassis?

One thing you can do to make the Xeon D cooling much more efficient is to use ducting.

aha.
I remember a long gone Dell Pentium 4 heater machine.
Dell was pretty good on cooling the processor, one 92mm fan with a palstic cover that acting as a duct. The heat got sucked up by the fan pretty good. the fan worked hard to pull hot air out from "giant" cpu heatsink.
well. I am reused the fan actually, amazing fan (very good/durable) running more than 10 years and still running araund.

this is easy to todo. instal a 120mm or minmally 92mm PWM fan that connect to CPU fans connector, and create a DIY cover manually or with 3D printer. the fan must be line of sight placement to pull out cpu heat quick without barrier, round angles shoud be ok, but not sharp angles..

not directly related.
I had a blower 1U directly to the cpu heatsink, and make a plastic duct to make sure the fans blow cold air to the cpu heatsink. this was 1U with old xeon x (already retired and unused) and worked perfectly.

 

[JimPhreak]

aha.
I remember a long gone Dell Pentium 4 heater machine.
Dell was pretty good on cooling the processor, one 92mm fan with a palstic cover that acting as a duct. The heat got sucked up by the fan pretty good. the fan worked hard to pull hot air out from "giant" cpu heatsink.
well. I am reused the fan actually, amazing fan (very good/durable) running more than 10 years and still running araund.

this is easy to todo. instal a 120mm or minmally 92mm PWM fan that connect to CPU fans connector, and create a DIY cover manually or with 3D printer. the fan must be line of sight placement to pull out cpu heat quick without barrier, round angles shoud be ok, but not sharp angles..

not directly related.
I had a blower 1U directly to the cpu heatsink, and make a plastic duct to make sure the fans blow cold air to the cpu heatsink. this was 1U with old xeon x (already retired and unused) and worked perfectly.

That sounds ideal but I'm not good at modding and I certainly don't have access/experience with 3D printers. I'd need to find myself some sort of prebuilt duct that I could install into a case and make it work somehow.

 

[canta]

That sounds ideal but I'm not good at modding and I certainly don't have access/experience with 3D printers. I'd need to find myself some sort of prebuilt duct that I could install into a case and make it work somehow.

3D printer is optional.
if you have 3D printer, make you life easy to make a duct

I used this to make a duct:

and

the problem is take time (making a duct) to mold/cutting/hot glue-ing.
this worked with my old 1U with blower fan and DIY duct that direct cool air to cpu heatsink only, another 40mm fans (2X low speed fans) cooled HD and extra nic card.

just bring a flash back memory

 

[JimPhreak]

Has anyone had any experience with the Chenbro RM42300?

Chenbro - Products

 

[T_Minus]

I have a Chenbro -- I don't thinkt hat model though I'll check

 

[canta]

Has anyone had any experience with the Chenbro RM42300?

Chenbro - Products

on my understanding:
I believe the quality is identical with norco product
do not expect SM quality ...

 

[JimPhreak]

on my understanding:
I believe the quality is identical with norco product
do not expect SM quality ...

Yea I wouldn't. However SM doesn't seem to make any server chassis that fits my needs (12 x 3.5" hot swaps + 4+ x 2.5")