Re: Equipment in loft - dust and heat issues?

[Chris Hunter <cjhunter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In our loft ( a traditional not a warm-roof, and so at the mercy of
the seasons), we have just packing-boxes, but after some years
they're all covered in dust & grime - more than I'd want getting on
'boards & fan-bearings

Chris


On 26 Dec 2005, at 21:50, Neil Fuller wrote:

> Dermot
>
> I've had two servers in the loft for the last 4 years and there have
> been no problems.
>
> In the summer, temperatures have reached 45DegC and I really expected
> the one with 4 drives in it to keel over but it just carried on! Cold
> hasn't been an issue either.
>
> My 24 port Linksys switch is in the loft (in a rack) and that's been
> fine as well.
>
> As far as dust in concerned, I wouldn't have thought it to be too much
> of a problem in a 3 year old house.
>
> Noise is a bit of a problem though. The big box does hum on the
> floor/ceiling but it's only audible when standing directly beneath
> it. I
> keep meaning to get some kind of anti vibration mount up there but it
> hasn't been that much of a problem yet so I keep finding more
> important
> things to do.
>
> Oh, I should mention that the 'big' box is only a 900MHz Athlon - It's
> only NAS and my weather site server.
>
> HTH
>
> Regards
>
> Neil
>
> dermot_bradley wrote:
>
> >Hey folks
> >
> >I moved house a few months ago (just after finishing wiring on my
> last
> >place doh!) and am trying to plan stuff out in the new house (3
years
> >old but new to me). Unlike the previous place there's nowhere
under
> >the stairs to put kit and cables and I think the garage is out for
> >various reasons.
> >
> >I was just going to put the ether switch, router, CAT5 cables etc
> in a
> >corner of my home office but now I'm wondering about using the
loft.
> >However I'm considered about dust and heat up there.
> >
> >At the very least I'd consider having CAT5 cable run to a patch
panel
> >there and the ether switch up there. The aerial coax already meets
> >there for a amp/splitter.
> >
> >I'm planned on building a couple/few new servers and am
considering
> >whether to put them up there - the RAID server probably would
> generate
> >too much heat (and the noise might echo down thru the roof into
the
> >bedrooms) but the other boxes may be mini-ITX machines (not sure
if
> >fanless) with no disks so they should run cool and quiet.
> >
> >Basically I'm worried about dust in the loft getting sucked into
PSU
> >and case fans. Also in summer I'd expect the loft gets quite hot
> and I
> >wouldn't want the servers dying due to it.
> >
> >I guess I could put everything in a small rackmount chassis
(10-12U
> >max) but these tend to be expensive.
> >
> >Comments?
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