On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Peter Gordon wrote: > They're loud. Perhaps it's all the fans and air conditioning and > what-not in the server room, but it gets really noisy in there at times.
If you looked inside a typical 2U dual CPU rack server you will probably find a bunch of drive bays (I have servers with 6 bays and most machines have 2 or 4 drives). Behind the hot-swap backplane, you will find about four fans to pull air through the front to the rear of the case. Each CPU will probably have a heatsink and a fan on it. Finally you will have the one (or more) power supplies, also containing a fan. That's a total 7 or 8 fans per server (and I won't even get into the huge air-conditioning systems at the data centers Ive worked in). I suspect a desktop machine with SCSI disks won't need quite as many fans :-) -- -- [email protected] mailing list
