On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 01:17:24AM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > One of the more dedicated members of this list got a free server system from > LUV and uses it as his personal workstation. It has something like 96G of > RAM but makes more noise than most people want in the same building they are > in. There's no reason why you couldn't design a system with 24 DIMM sockets > that doesn't sound like an aircraft taking off, but most people who want so > much RAM have a soundproofed server room.
Or they could replace the shitty server fans with high-quality low noise fans. Server fans are invariably a) shitty garbage because the manufacturer can save a few bucks on a $5000+ server, and b) aѕsumed to be in a server room with loud air conditioning and other noisy crap so that the awful jet-engine screaming isn't considered to be important. Server fans aren't just shitty because they're noisy. They're shitty because they're the cheapest shit fans the manufacturer can source and they'll likely die in a year or three, possibly killing the server due to overheating when they do. Anyone using a server type machine at home should replace all the fans in it with decent 3rd-party fans. 80-140 mm fans are easy to find, but even the tiny 40mm fans can be replaced with much quieter fans. I'd recommend doing that with servers at any work place too except for the grief it would cause with warranty and support contracts. (consumer grade hot-swap drive bays often have shitty cheap fans in them too. Usually 40mm for 2.5" bays, 80mm for 3.5" bays. They'll be noisy and die quickly too. They should also be replaced, or maybe just disconnected if the bays have SSDs in them rather than HDDs) BTW, I'm in the process of building my long-awaited upgrade system (upgrading from a Phenom II 1090T that I built around 2010 to a Threadripper 1950x - I expect this to last me another 8-10 years or more). It has 64GB RAM (4 x DDR4-3200 G-Skill Ripjaws V 16GB DIMMS @ $265 each). Іt has 4 spare DIMM slots so I can upgrade it to 128GB later if I want. It's almost completely silent because the CPU has a Noctua heatsink with 140mm fan, and the case fans are also quiet. These move a lot of air with almost no noise. It's pretty much ready to go sitting on the uber-geek workbench in my dedicated PC build room (i.e. the coffee table in the loungeroom :-), running debian with ZFS root on a pair on Samsung 970 NVMEs. Just need to decide whether to get a new GPU or not. I could recycle an nvidia old GTX 750, or maybe buy a GTX 1050 or 1060....or one of the AMD radeon GPUs. I'll probably use the 750 until GPU prices come back to something reasonable after all the e-tulip ponzi farmers crash and burn. The Phenom II has 32GB of DDR-3 RAM and is going to remain as my home LAN's ZFS file server (and everythhing-else server - dhcp, dns, squid, apache, tftp, postfix, and lots more). As it's no longer doubling as my workstation (running bloated memory-pigs like chromium and firefox), I'll be able to re-tune it to allocate more of its RAM to ZFS ARC. I'll probably upgrade it to a threadripper too some time in the future. Neither DDR3 RAM nor motherboards nor AM3+ CPus are readily available any more, which would make replacements a huge problem if any of the parts died. craig -- craig sanders <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main
