Got a new server

Posted Tue, 04/07/2009 - 08:50 by coolvibe

So, Richard came by yesterday evening to drop the server off (thanks dude). It's an IBM eServer 336 8873, with one 3.6 Ghz Xeon, 4 GB of RAM and 2x72 GB disks. Nice box. It's kinda noisy though. So I was sitting in the noise later to install Solaris 10 on the thing, which runs beautifully on it by the way. But the noise is bugging me. So, if anyone knows of a nice solution to quiet that thing down a notch (or two), I'm open for suggestions. Preferably without impairing the machine by too much. 

Anyways, I also looked at the power consumption, which is okay for home use. It won't drive my electric bills up too much.

Another option is to rack it somewhere. Who has got a place to spare for a 1u machine and a spare IP number? For not all too much money please. :)

Comments

Comment viewing options

Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes.

Are you sure? A conservative

by Habbie (not verified) - 04/07/2009 - 09:20

Are you sure? A conservative estimate of power costs comes to about 600 euros a year.

The PSU (I only use one, I

by Emiel Kollof (not verified) - 04/07/2009 - 09:29

The PSU (I only use one, I took the other one out) is specced to ~580 Watts. The machine, when idling and not under heavy load will probably not eat up that much, so the costs would be okay. But I am probably considering moving it to some rack somewhere remote since the damn thing is very noisy.

I assumed 280 watts average

by Habbie (not verified) - 04/07/2009 - 09:34

I assumed 280 watts average load to get to that 600 figure

Which is round 50

by Emiel Kollof (not verified) - 04/07/2009 - 09:39

Which is round 50 euros/month. Hm, colocating it looks cheaper. I probably get better connectivity at some colo place. Know any good cheap ones?

Habbie suggested

by Emiel Kollof (not verified) - 04/07/2009 - 10:16

Habbie suggested coloclue.net. I signed up. Looks like a fun place.

Comment viewing options

Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes.

Post new comment

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd>
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
  • You may embed videos from the following providers . Just add the video URL to your textarea in the place where you would like the video to appear, i.e. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw0jmvdh.
  • You may use <swf file="song.mp3"> to display Flash files inline

More information about formatting options