A noisy room server shows why quiet hardware matters
A recently acquired server is too loud to keep comfortably in a bedroom. The noise becomes especially annoying when trying to sleep, and the goal is to fix it cheaply.
One possible plan is to remove the server lid and place two fans on top of the . Two smaller fans may also be placed on two other whose purpose is unclear.
One of those gets very hot. The main problem is how to lower the noise without letting the server overheat.
Key points
- The server is too loud to use comfortably in a bedroom.
- The goal is a cheap way to reduce the noise.
- The proposed fix is to remove the lid and add fans over the .
- One heatsink gets very hot, which raises a cooling concern.
- For a , noise and heat can matter as much as raw power.