On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 03:29:17PM -0700, [email protected] wrote: > >Hm. thanks. yeah, I'll get one that exhausts properly next time I buy > >switches. > > note that if you are trying to save money, most systems will let you > flip the fans without too much effort (or at least all the ones not inside > the power supply). If you are buying name brand 1u systems you will have > more problems as the airflow inside them is pretty carefully engineered, > but for whitebox systems and networking gear it's usually not too hard.
I've got some spare 2824s in the office; I'll look at how much effort it is to reverse the fans. I need to setup a network bench system so I can you know, netperf it 24x7 or something in the hot office and see at what point it fries. Also, I don't have the switch here, but I don't remember anything that looks like the air vent on the front of the switch; just the side and the back. I dono how the heat coming out the sides instead of the back is going to change things within the rack, but if I remember correctly, we've got a good rack-top fan that should mostly take care of that, but it will require watching. -- Luke S. Crawford http://prgmr.com/xen/ - Hosting for the technically adept http://nostarch.com/xen.htm - We don't assume you are stupid. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
