Building a Server for Home Lab

scottalanmiller

That's surprising. Every Proliant we've ever had, including DL380s, has been staggeringly loud.

DustinB3403

@scottalanmiller said:

That's surprising. Every Proliant we've ever had, including DL380s, has been staggeringly loud.

~That's because whoever sold him the server took half the fans....

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@scottalanmiller said:

That's surprising. Every Proliant we've ever had, including DL380s, has been staggeringly loud.

The DL380 G5 I got a few months ago is loud, but this one is fairly quiet, at least compared to the G5.

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@DustinB3403 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

That's surprising. Every Proliant we've ever had, including DL380s, has been staggeringly loud.

~That's because whoever sold him the server took half the fans....

Ha I double checked

scottalanmiller

@johnhooks said:

@DustinB3403 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

That's surprising. Every Proliant we've ever had, including DL380s, has been staggeringly loud.

~That's because whoever sold him the server took half the fans....

Ha I double checked

And.... they really did steal them?

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@scottalanmiller said:

@johnhooks said:

@DustinB3403 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

That's surprising. Every Proliant we've ever had, including DL380s, has been staggeringly loud.

~That's because whoever sold him the server took half the fans....

Ha I double checked

And.... they really did steal them?

Oh no, haha they're all there.

marcinozga

@johnhooks said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@johnhooks said:

@DustinB3403 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

That's surprising. Every Proliant we've ever had, including DL380s, has been staggeringly loud.

~That's because whoever sold him the server took half the fans....

Ha I double checked

And.... they really did steal them?

Oh no, haha they're all there.

Maybe they're clogged with dust and don't spin anymore.

quicky2g

@marcinozga said:

@johnhooks said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@johnhooks said:

@DustinB3403 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

That's surprising. Every Proliant we've ever had, including DL380s, has been staggeringly loud.

~That's because whoever sold him the server took half the fans....

Ha I double checked

And.... they really did steal them?

Oh no, haha they're all there.

Maybe they're clogged with dust and don't spin anymore.

Or someone stuck a cat in your server

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@marcinozga said:

@johnhooks said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@johnhooks said:

@DustinB3403 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

That's surprising. Every Proliant we've ever had, including DL380s, has been staggeringly loud.

~That's because whoever sold him the server took half the fans....

Ha I double checked

And.... they really did steal them?

Oh no, haha they're all there.

Maybe they're clogged with dust and don't spin anymore.

It's pretty clean. The G5 has 8 fans (I think, I know it's more) and this only has 6 so that's def part of it.

Alex Sage

Server is up and running!

scottalanmiller

Awesome!