Having purchased many 2800's, 2900's, T710's, T620's, and T630's, I can say that the trend has been quieter and power draw lower with each generation. There is an initial spin up at power on, but after a few minutes the fans do spin down automatically. I believe that the latest servers also allow some degree of software control over the fan speed (perhaps I saw this setting in the iDRAC Enterprise?). The latest PERCs also allow spin down/power save of drives to reduce power draw/heat output and, of course, the CPUs support idling/shutting down of unused cores for the same purpose.
Bond Masuda wrote on 1/20/2017 4:27 PM: > Hi Fellow Linux/PowerEdge users: > > I have a pair of old PE2900 that are starting to show their age and I'm > considering replacing them. They run CentOS7 to serve as NAS function + > KVM + few other things. > > I'm considering T630, but was wondering how loud the T630, especially > compared against old PE2900? I had to swap all the fans in the PE2900 > and tweak the BMC firmware to get it to about 38 dBA and that is > acceptable. Was wondering what other Linux users with T630 have experienced? > > Thanks for anything you care share, > > Bond > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-PowerEdge mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge
