Re: Keeping node0 cool...

[Phil Harris <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

My node 0 is in what used to be the airing cupboard until the hot
water cylinder was removed and a combi boiler installed elsewhere.

It is now home to my switches, router, printer and media server. It
now keeps the chill off my bathroom in the mornings *and* also works
as an airing cupboard again. :-)

Phil

Sent from another bloody fruit-based portable device...

On 17 May 2010, at 17:03, Vargster <vargster@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> This has been kind of discussed before, but I was wondering what you
> chaps
> did about cooling your Node0's?
>
> Mine has been gradually gaining kit and then over the last few
> months the
> server has been acting a bit strange (locking up, rebooting, random
> processes crashing), then last week the server it locked up and
> wouldn't
> restart. I dragged it out of "my little node0" (aka the
cupboard
> under the
> stairs) and found the hard drive was corrupt. Re-imaging it and then
> updating from the backups :)
> got it working again. Since then it's been on the desk in my study,
> and it's
> been 100% solid, no restarts/lock ups nothing. I put this down to the
> temperature in N0, it was getting a bit hot in there.
>
> I've drilled a 4" hole in the wall of N0 (going back into the
> hallway) and
> put a duct through, then trimmed 1/2" off the bottom of the door.
> This did
> nothing for the temperatures.
> I've tried a 120mm PC case fan and also an old bathroom extractor
> fan, to
> blow out the warm air. But they only lower the temperature by 1'C or
> so.
>
> What next? Ideally I'm like to keep the heat in the house to warm it
> over
> the winter (save energy and all that) but what are you guys doing to
> cool
> your N0's?
>
> Lee
>
>
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