I just finished up rebuilding my server and I thought I'd post some pictures.
System: Case: Lian-Li PC Q-26 (sound deadened with Silverstone SF01) Mobo: Asrock C2550D4I Ram: 16GB Kingston ECC HDD: 4 WD Red 3Tb (actually, one of the four is a black... whateveskies) OS: Freenas (CIFS, Transmission, Plex, and Virtualbox running: Win XP Lite (RSS fed torrent machine w/ PIA VPN) and Ubuntu (running TeamSpeak Server and Transmission with remote access)
Anyways - on to the build pictures (which I'm sure you just scrolled to anyhow haha):
Sound deadening some 120mm covers that I picked up from CaseLabs.
The only negative I'll say about the case is that the side panels click on and off, which is great - but the back panel forces you to be VERY good with cable management otherwise the back panel will pop off. Otherwise it's beautiful and was a joy to build in.
Yeah I think you're right... so the case has 3 120mm fans in the front pushing a lot of air right across the HDD's - but I have seen a nearly 10 degree Celsius increase in temperature on the motherboard and about 7 on the CPU. It's surely that much of the air is being recycled around in the cabinet.
What would you do - cut in a 180mm in the back of the cabinet as and intake - or... should I just move the case somewhere else... I wonder if the cabinet isn't going to fit the bill.
On the other hand, thought the temps are higher, they're still reasonable (I think, tell me if you think otherwise)... the server has been running since last night and there are no event logs (temp or otherwise).
If you can you could remove the doors from the cabinet (should be on hinges) or if that makes it look ugly you could sit it alongside the cabinet. I'd have to see more of your setup to think of a place to put it :P
Can you pull the temperatures from the drives too? Those are far less tolerant to temperature than processors.
I installed tempreporter this morning... It requires a reboot and the machine was in the midst of a scrub. I'll reboot, run the reporter, and post Friday afternoon when I get home.
What do you think are reasonable operating temperatures for consumer HDDs?
It's a great point - and I'll admit, I'm a little fussy with this stuff (that... and I like new shit so the idea of tearing apart my rig and rebuild it is always fun)...
In any case - before the server was in a Fractal Define XL - stupid large and sat on the side of the cabinet to the right - basically - if I was napping or sitting in the living room with nothing on I could hear the fans hum and sometimes the HDD's working. Not a big deal... but this seemed rad so I went ahead and did it.
