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Supermicro 1U pizza box server fan noise by wing03 in c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

[-] wing03@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Hrm. Some more googling, I see I might be able to use IPMI tool to have some direct control over to the cooling and fan speed parameters that BIOS settings don't allow for.

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Supermicro 1U pizza box server fan noise (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by wing03@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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I am downsizing a hosting business that I've had in co-location since the early 00s by moving it into my basement.

Consolidating my own things mainly into one esxi 1u box and a 3u TrueNAS box that are running 24/7. Some customer 4u rack boxes will be coming over as well once I've got my stuff migrated up and running fully.

The biggest problem I have right now is the loud high pitched whine of the cooling fans in the 1U as background noise in my house. Fine in a datacenter, not so great for a suburban family dwelling.

Apart from selling off hardware and buying ATX and big chassis for big quiet fans, I've seen various images of people's racks with pizza box servers here and curious what is done for noise reduction.

Thanks

Help about self-hosting, a service with 100 + users by wing03 in c/main@selfhosted.forum

[-] wing03@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

TrueNAS enterprise with the cluster mirroring for HA iSCSI for your hypervisor storage?

I'm getting out of the mom and pop web and mail hosting business and taking a very slow and long shutdown myself by moving out of co-location and into my basement. So just TrueNAS core, ESXi vsphere essentials to do the vmware snapshots for that end of the business.