Anyone run their rack / servers hot in their garage and/or mini-data center? I know the trend is in this direction, just curious what people here are running at, how long, how it's going etc...
I've been dragging feet with my mini-data center room but have the building material, a small AC I've had to 'get started', etc...
However, I have a couple systems in this office space currently not cooled and I use them until 11-1pm depending on the day before retreating to my AC office in the house. The other day it was 86*F and the servers were chugging along just fine... right now I'm using an E3 Xeon as my desktop + another doing misc stuff in this space. The temp swings from low 60s at night, maybe even upper 50s (fan cooled the room all night) to pushing near 90 on hot days... the fans will go loud when almost 90 ambient but system stability/etc 100% fine.
I told my wife I'm just going to delay the server deploy in the 'server room' that needs finished until winter so I don't have to worry about cooling (except with fans) for another 6-8 months... gives me some time to finish my build, but also will save $$ not cooling for the tail-end of summer on hardware that's not paying for itself yet, seemed like a win-win to me... (except it not making $ yet ha ha).
I should note that while I use them until it's too hot, they do run 24/7.
Anyway, that's my story and revised plan to save a few bucks
How hot are you running your gear?
I've been dragging feet with my mini-data center room but have the building material, a small AC I've had to 'get started', etc...
However, I have a couple systems in this office space currently not cooled and I use them until 11-1pm depending on the day before retreating to my AC office in the house. The other day it was 86*F and the servers were chugging along just fine... right now I'm using an E3 Xeon as my desktop + another doing misc stuff in this space. The temp swings from low 60s at night, maybe even upper 50s (fan cooled the room all night) to pushing near 90 on hot days... the fans will go loud when almost 90 ambient but system stability/etc 100% fine.
I told my wife I'm just going to delay the server deploy in the 'server room' that needs finished until winter so I don't have to worry about cooling (except with fans) for another 6-8 months... gives me some time to finish my build, but also will save $$ not cooling for the tail-end of summer on hardware that's not paying for itself yet, seemed like a win-win to me... (except it not making $ yet ha ha).
I should note that while I use them until it's too hot, they do run 24/7.
Anyway, that's my story and revised plan to save a few bucks
How hot are you running your gear?