Subj : Arch btw
To   : Accession
From : DaiTengu
Date : Thu Nov 27 2025 23:25:35

  Re: Arch btw
  By: Accession to DaiTengu on Thu Nov 27 2025 08:04 pm

 Ac> I have a ML310e Gen8 at my feet, that isn't loud at all. Granted, it's
 Ac> only one CPU and one PSU, and does BBS things so it's probably not being
 Ac> super strained or anything. It does have those plastic baffles in the main
 Ac> bay after the fans though, so maybe that helps with keeping the sound down
 Ac> a bit.

 Ac> Is it just the dual CPU setup that makes it louder? Or could it be that
 Ac> the rack servers are just louder than tower servers? I'm actually eyeing
 Ac> up a ML350 Gen9 with 2x Xeon 2.6ghz 14 core processors, 128gb ddr4 ram,
 Ac> and like 12TB 10k 12gb/s SAS SSDs. If it's going to be significantly
 Ac> louder, I may rethink that option.

 Rackmount servers, especially 1u/2u boxes are WAY louder. like 80db loud when the fans crank up to 100%, which HP servers tend to do if you have "non-hp-certified hardware" installed in them (like non-enterprise disks).  I had to write a script that reboots the iLO controller any time the fans get above 50%, otherwise they just crank themselves up to 100% and no amount of fan control command wizardry will stop them.

They need to push a lot of air through a small space. the 2u server I have has 6 60mm fans that stretch across the entire case. they sit behind the drives in the front, and blow everything they have on the motherboard/CPUs. 

and no, single-CPU boxes aren't any quieter :D

 Ac> I feel I could build a minipc for roughly the same price, but I wouldn't
 Ac> be able to get nearly the HDD space at that price point, and feel like it
 Ac> would be a complete waste of money to turn a newer 16 cores Intel or AMD
 Ac> cpu, ddr5 ram, and gen5 m.2 SSDs into a flippin' server, lol.

 I want the CPUs and the drive space. whatever replaces this HP box will wind up having a couple 20-core CPUs at minimum. 

 Ac> I was hooked after the first time I tried it (it's been about 15 years
 Ac> now). I will still grab and install new and interesting distros when I
 Ac> hear about them, but there's no way anything compares to Arch, IMO, if you
 Ac> want a rolling distro with the latest and greatest - oh, and dislike
 Ac> Debian. :)

 I do have virtualbox, but the idea would be to jam it on the physical hardware to see how it can perform with anything I want to run.  I don't play a lot of video games, but I've been hearing good things about gaming on Linux recently, and kind of want to give it a try again. 


 

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