JJZolx;261295 Wrote: > Why the need for a rackmount chassis? I would assume you're not > planning on placing it in rack or cabinet unless you have other > rackmount equipment. > > I'd be leery of building a computer in a rackmount chassis with no > fans. Even if the PSU and the CPU can get by, the hard drive may not. > Cram it all into a tiny space and you're asking for heat related > problems. I've seen some rackmount chassis that were fanless, but > they're generally intended for building things like routers and > firewalls with either solid state drives or very little disk activity.
It was partly down to the WAF - I'm afraid. Putting the equipment under the stairs meant no large boxes and no noise (at all). Secondly I have a rack system (home build), that also has to accomodate a 16 port switch, 16 port patch panel, and digital home security system all of which is rack mounted. So it kind of made sense you see. The area is well vented - and I have allowed for a half U space between each component. Though I appreciate the worry of heat issues, I don't think I will have too much cause for concern, there is little intensive disk activity going on with the current server (a Small Form Factor PC - Shuttle). Of course I will let you all know when the system packs in because of heat, so you can gloat!!! :) TC Nic -- DrNic ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DrNic's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=92 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42527 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
