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quiet fans

  • 20-01-2006 10:29am
    #1
    colm_c
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,032 ✭✭✭


    We've got an small fileserver from dell which is about 18 months old - and the fans in it are quite noisy - even more noticeable since all the shiney no noise desktops have arrived this week.

    Just looking for some recommendations for some nice ultra quiet fans to replace the current ones - the fans will have to be good at cooling as there are 4x harddrives running on a RAID set in it.


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  • #2
    WizZard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,762 ✭✭✭WizZard


    Servers tend to be noisey. Have you cleaned the fans. A little grease on the bearings works wonders.
    If they are hot-swappable I *think* you can only get them from Dell.


  • #3
    colm_c
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,032 ✭✭✭colm_c


    It's not a typical server machine in rack mounted sense - it's a desktop-like box with a few extra fans on it...


  • #4
    WizZard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,762 ✭✭✭WizZard


    They can have hot-swappable fans too.

    Did you put extra fans inside, or did Dell? Is it an actual "server" or a desktop
    machine?
    What I said previously about grease and dust still holds true.


  • #5
    colm_c
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,032 ✭✭✭colm_c


    It is a "server" machine - that's what we bought it as.

    The fans have been cleaned when I upgraded it to a RAID array - but the sound is the same as it was the first time we turned it on apart from the new hard-drives now being silent and all we can hear are the fans in an otherwise silent office!

    I don't know the fans are hot-swappable or not... I may have to investigate this with dell.


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