[clue-tech] Noisy computers

[Chris N. Brown]

Just my $0.02 on silent systems.

When I built out my home server about a year ago, similar to the below setup, 
I spent a lot of time going for speed and TONS of disk space.. when all was 
said and done I had 2 Raid 0 IDE array's, (320GB each woohoo!)  an internal 
IDE drive, a few DVD drives and a honkin power supply in a nice piano black 
case.

Looked cool but it sounded like a 747 powering up for takeoff.

I spent some time looking into noise reduction, and ended up swapping the 
power supply, the cooling fans and the CPU fan for Zalman noiseless 
equipment.  WOW what a difference ... other than the hard drive noise during 
access the machine is almost totally quiet.. you can't hear it when you walk 
away from my desk at all.


YMMV but I highly recommend them for noise reduction -- especially when it 
comes to fans.  You can get their stuff at MicroCenter or online (check 
pricewatch).

-Chris 


On Wednesday 09 March 2005 04:05 pm, mike havlicek's keyboard was compelled to 
write:
> I have run into a similar problem.
>
> I just got a disk array with 7 10k rpm disks. It is
> pretty loud. I got on a tangent beyond setting up the
> hardware raid that I want on the array with the noise.
> That is with one power supply ... I also have the
> option of reducing the disks by 1 and adding redundant
> power which I am sure will be louder.
>
> Anyway the solution I am working on is using wireless
> to put the array on a box in my basement. FUN. With
> the hardware I got I ended up getting device driver
> code from source-forge etc....
>
> -Mike
>
> BTW: does anyone know about how to use adaptec array
> 1000 with linux? I have the RAID controller in my box
> to hopefully get the array up. My only successful
> experience with hardware RAID has been with Mylex DAC
> 960....
>
> --- Timothy Klein <teece at silverklein.net> wrote:
> > On 6 Mar 2005, at 1:54 PM, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
> > > On Saturday 05 March 2005 04:21 pm, Timothy Klein
> >
> > wrote:
> > >> First off, if they are ball-bearing fans (most
> >
> > likely), replace the
> >
> > >> fans.  Ball-bearing fans get noisy when they are
> >
> > dying.
> >
> > > Not necessarily.  A lot of what's sold as "ball
> >
> > bearing" fans is ball
> >
> > > bearings
> > > only on one side,  and cheap sleeve bearings on
> >
> > the other...
> >
> > Yeah, I realized I misspoke when I read your
> > message.  As you can see,
> > I am no mechanical engineer...
> > --
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