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So clean, I'm jealous
How can you hear the DJ tunes over the server fans?
Canāt hear either over my tinnitus
Same. Thirty years later and I still have it D:
Man, GTFO with that hot mess..... I'm jealous really. I'm getting a chub just thinking about it.
Oi thats too clean for this thread. Get out of here! /s Nice setup.
Business in frontā¦
I remember looking at Sysracks racks a while back when I was trying to find sound-absorbent enclosed racks (which they do make, though I didn't get one; wasn't willing to pay for it, as they come at a very large premium). They were one of the very few companies making them. I don't think that those particular ones are the sound-absorbent models, but their name stuck in my head.
I got this because itās almost fully enclosed. Most of the noise comes from an open rear door which this doesnāt have, and an open front door which this sort of has. Itās not very loud when the hvac is set to a reasonable level, even though itās pulling air through 4 fans on the top.
I have additional sound deadening material if I need to apply it but Iām not there yet.
Iām eyeing 3-5 more 1U servers though so maybe Iāll need to do it.
That's probably a pretty good idea in terms of cost. I checked earlier when I made the comment to see what the price difference these days was, and IIRC a non-isolated 18U is ~$800 and an isolated 18U is ~$1800. They aren't putting anything like $1k of sound-absorbing material into the rack.
Is this the ābeforeā shot? Thereās 190 spare ports. Iām all for leaving room to expand, but thatās a lot
Unpowered free 48 port switches are cheaper than block off plates.
Canāt argue with that!