CTS - 2006 :: Acousti Products - How to stop that server from ruining your life

[Steve]

Designed to reduce the perceived noise from 19-inch-wide server and rack-mounted equipment (including blade server chassis) with clever design, the patent-pending, self-ventilating cabinet reduces the Sound Power Level (SPL) by up to 90%. It's extremely useful in instances when servers have to be located in rooms where employees work, and the 42U chassis is capable of dissipating 3kWs of heat.

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=5579

[awm]

This has got to be expensive. Wouldn't some sort of liquid cooling work better?

[Steve]

Originally Posted by awm

This has got to be expensive. Wouldn't some sort of liquid cooling work better?

Probably, but fitting watercooling into a 1U chassis is going to be more expensive, and nobody would ever want to do it to their server rack.

[awm]

Couldn't you have one central, say 4U system for all the servers, kind of like whatever system of fans they have inside the case. I would guess the cool temparatures would also extend server life and reliability.

[kempez]

Thats a pretty neat design for a place that has their servers in the room with them. Any idea on how much leccy it draws?