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Dell R720 noise at 3AM, wife not amused

Dedicated Servers by celiadog 4 replies 244 views
13 #1

Edge this problem immediately folks

My origin was 12 before I edge'd my R720 to the closet pop. Now it's a cache hit with the wife, latency down to 3. Fan mod plus edge relocation = origin restored. Miss on the noise, hit on the marriage

#2

Rain bad, noise worse. You try closet with vent fan? How many watt PSU?

phở at 3AM, deploy at 4
#3

Oh I feel you. My nephew set up our "internet box" in the guest room and my wife said it sounds like a vacuum cleaner. I told her that's just Dell doing their IT thing. She made me call Dell Support and they said buy quieter model. Is RAM the fans or the hard part?

#4

As far as I know, relocating to a closet without adequate airflow will trigger thermal throttling. You need 200 CFM minimum exhaust. I built a baffle box with acoustic foam from HostHatch's surplus listing, costs 40 euros. Regarding GDPR, if your wife records the noise as evidence, that is personal data.

Neuland. Aber schnell.
#5
Fio --name=noise --ioengine=sync
wife_angry: 100% (3AM)
fan_rpm: 15000
db: 68

relocated to closet:
wife_angry: 0%
fan_rpm: 15000
db: 52 (foam baffle)

Decent disk IO, meh network. Foam wins.

fio, iperf, geekbench. results or gtfo.

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