Agreed ! However, you may be able to lower the sound ever so slightly more by staggering the drives so that every other one is upside down, spinning the opposite direction and thus minimizing accumulative rotational vibration.
I had to make a makeshift temporary server when our NAS gateway device had a problem that required we reinitialize the array (after moving all data off of course). I used a Coolermaster CM Stacker with 16x750GB drives in SATA 4-drive carriers all going the same direction and the system made a horrendous oscillating buzz, as well as the occasional drive timeout warning from the RAID controller when the system was under high load (all drives part of single RAID6 array). After some thought, I decided to turn 2 of the 4 drive cages upside down so that the config had 4 drives spinning normally, 4 upside down, 4 normally, and finally another 4 upside down. The oscillation was gone completely as were the rare drive timeouts under load. Your laced setup places the drives in so much dampening that it might not make much of a difference but still, might as well take care of it now rather than later when it's all buttoned up if it starts buzz. It certainly couldn't hurt. -=dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Gibbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Diego Righi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 8:06 AM Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] New zfs pr0n server :))) > Wow, what a creative idea. And I'll bet that allows for much more > airflow than the 4-in-3 drive cages do. Very nice. > > On 9/6/07, Diego Righi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Unfortunately it only comes with 4 adapters, bare metal adapters without >> any dampering /silencing and so on... >> ...anyway I wanted to make it the most silent I could, so I suspeded all >> the 10 disks (8 sata 320gb and a little 2,5" pata root disk) with a >> flexible wire, like I posted in this italian forum, the page is in >> italian, but the pictures show the concept well enough: >> http://www.pcsilenzioso.it/forum/showthread.php?t=2397 >> >> >> This message posted from opensolaris.org >> _______________________________________________ >> zfs-discuss mailing list >> zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >> > > > -- > Christopher Gibbs > Email / LDAP Administrator > Web Integration & Programming > Abilene Christian University > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
