[KLUG Members] loud servers

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>Last night for the first time I turned off every server here in my
>office, unhooked all the switches and basically cleaned up after 7 years of
>"There's a spot, put it there..."
>We have this Compaq Proliant 5500 server which untill last night, I
>never knew how loud it was.  This server is loud.  It's got dual redundant
>power supplies, a single one seems about double the size of the one I've got
>in my box at home.
>Anybody every sucesfully combated loud backgroud noise?  

Put them in an enclosed space, a "glass room".  If they are out in the open the
constant noise will damage your hearing.  If the "glass room" is too noisy
install a Liebert climate control unit,  you'll never be able to hear the
servers over one of those! :)

>Do they make a muffler for a computer?

Not that I've ever seen.  Most of the noise comes from cheap out of balance
fans,  I don't think you can "muffler" that.  I had a friend in High School who
flew ultralights,  the diffrence in noise between a "good" propellar and a
"cheap" one is INCREDIBLE.  Basically a poorly balanced fan/propellar spends a
good percentage of it's energy beating the living ^#&^%@)$ out of the
atmosphere,  resulting in lots of noise.

Systems and Network Administrator
Morrison Industries
1825 Monroe Ave NW.
Grand Rapids, MI. 49505