I agree with you that there won't be a vacuum if you have a fan in front, but I want a vacuum so that's why I don't use one. As far as real servers go, I agree with you about real server cases for computer room servers with scsi drives. My servers are in my bed room. Not the one that I sleep in though. :-) I want them to be as quiet as possible, so I use ide drives and no more fans than I need to get them to cool. But that's not so bad anymore what with 250 GB drives, etc. I'm plenty happy with three spindles in the case, at least for now.
Steve Rose In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > There won't be a vaccum - one fan pushes air in, the other > pulls it out. You simply want to put as much air through > the case and have it maintain a good velocity. Most of > the problems I've seen have been processor and video. Even > though they have fans if there isn't any cooler air for > them they'll still heat up. > > Drives are another issue - the case fans won't address > them. In the past I've used drive mounts that had grills > and fans built in to pull air from front over the drive. > However when you get three SCSI drives that still doesn't > work well. For system with a large number of drives I go > to a server cabinet that is designed for the load - it's > got the fans and good cooling paths. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
