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So I got a server from work that I was going to convert into a terminal server. The problem was that it was a 1U system. The reason that's a problem is that a 1U system has small fans, and the smaller the fan, the bigger the noise. Bigger fans can rotate at slower speeds. When I turned on the 1U server, I could hear it from two floors away. I was going to have to convert this into a tower system and use bigger fans.
I was able to cut some material out of this case to house the motherboard, but this motherboard required A LOT of fans to be running in order to power on. I just didn't have that many large fans. I also had to use mount the 1U power supply into the case because it's 25PIN +8 and I didn't have any of those. Because I was restricted to this power supply, I didn't have power for the SATA drive (because of the back plane board for the drives). My only option for the drive was to lay the back plane on top and mount the drives. Then because the distance was so far from the controller, I could only mount two drives instead of four.
Anyway, unless I was willing to put some money into this, the conversion is a failure. I'm going to just suck it up and see if I can add parts of this server into my workstation that I'm using as a server anyway. Just combine the two int one really mean terminal server. I don't think I'm going to get as much RAM out of it as I would like though.
This shows my completed media server and walk up workstation. More
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Our Apple XServe that hosts Feed2JS and some QuickTime streaming has moved upstairs to the main office server area; it previously occupied a spot in our office (see the server farm).
It had been "book mounted" -- propped up on some Shockwave programming collector item books from the mid 1990s.
One of our company's mail servers that should have been trashed years ago finally bit the dust yesterday. Unfortunately, it did so without a single usable backup. Pat and I set up camp in my garage and worked late into the night trying extract what we could.
The truly ironic thing is that we already had a new server on order from Dell. We only needed this server to last another week or two. Damn you Murphy!
I take another pass with the bokeh filter, this time in my school's server room. The status lights twinkled like stars in cartoon through the view-finder.
What makes a succesful lawfirm work.
I am currently taking a semester off from school to intern with a local IT / Server Management / Computers et all.
So for a week they shipped me off to South Carolina to do a complete server and workstation upgrade for a 40+ person lawfirm.
Welcome to my nightmare.
A frontal view of our servers; this room's subsequently been cleared out, and the servers on the desk have been moved elsewhere.
Moving towards a completely silent computer setup in the whole house!
MacBook Air, iMac, Dell Desktop, silent Seagate NAS, and now a tiny server!
It's hard to really get a feel for how small this is without seeing it in person, but the soda can should help.
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My new server cupboard. A timber skeleton with MDF sides. Three 12V 120mm fans with dust filters. Air exits through holes drilled in the top. It will have a perspex front so it is fully enclosed to reduce noise.
This is a picture I took while building my server, had to add some geeky flavour to this photostream!
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