Improvised but at the same time cared enough to put 4 ties where the bolts would go. Approved.
Server hardware overheating? Zip ties is always the solution.
Submitted 9 months ago by BlovedMadman@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world
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kubica@kbin.social 9 months ago
technologicalcaveman@kbin.social 9 months ago
A coworker of mine was an computer engineer in the early 2000s, but is now a warehouse director. She told me she helped her son build a new pc but it was having heating issues. I asked about fans and she said it only had 2 intake on the front with no exhaust. Told her a local shop that has cheaply priced good fans. She said computers have changed a lot in 20 years. I helped in about a week ago with choosing storage blocks, had no clue nvme even existed.
Corgana@startrek.website 9 months ago
nvme did kinda feel like it arrived out of nowhere!
agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 9 months ago
You do lose touch rather quickly. I’m a software developer, but I’m not really interested in hardware in my free time, so I honestly didn’t know what exactly to make of nvme until very recently.
The first time I saw an m.2 SSD in real life was about a year ago.
Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 9 months ago
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters PCIe Peripheral Component Interconnect Express SATA Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage SSD Solid State Drive mass storage
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BlovedMadman@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Gotta love a good TLA.
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
When I was a kid, the first PC I built was a white box with a Pentium 4 HT, which was still a fairly new CPU at the time. It ran hot so I cut a hole in the side of the case, bolted a 120 MM fan in the hole, and covered it with a shroud that I think I must have fabricated with Aluminum facia.
It didn’t look pretty but it worked. And it kept my bedroom toasty in the winter.
agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 9 months ago
I mean, that’s essentially how my first tower PC was cooled. Bought it as a complete PC and the cooling was a blower style fan that sucked cool air through vents on the side via a plastic shroud.
And it was also one of the wonderful pentium 4 space heaters with incidental compute.
ByteWizard@lemm.ee 9 months ago
I’d say it was the fan that solved the overheating problem, not the zip ties.
BlovedMadman@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I tried just the fan on it’s own, but gravity always left it sat at the bottem of my case.
Norgur@kbin.social 9 months ago
You can ditch the first sentence there.
Zip ties is always the solution. Period.MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 9 months ago
Except if some string and paperclip is enough.
IamRoot@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Are they though?
Norgur@kbin.social 9 months ago
Are you a denier of the Zip?! HERETIC!
ShadowRam@kbin.social 9 months ago
What'da work at New Holland or something?
Their equipment is held together by zipties.
Norgur@kbin.social 9 months ago
Nah, but I live in one of the cities MAN is named after. No that this would mean anything, but hey.... :P
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Zip ties the new duct tape?
Norgur@kbin.social 9 months ago
More like working in symbiosis
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
UFODivebomb@programming.dev 9 months ago
Gotta give it to noctua for making brown cool
macrocephalic@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Using consumer hardware as a server.
BlovedMadman@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yes.
Dempf@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
Nice, I ended up just taping a fan on underneath using HVAC tape applied directly to the heatsink.
The plastic screw thing that holds the heatsink on can become brittle and break after some years. It might be worth picking up some small nylon bolts online before that happens.
CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 9 months ago
I placed my fan over the heatsink and did an X pattern in zipties to hold it all in place
poVoq@slrpnk.net 9 months ago
Yeah, sadly a lot of server hardware is designed for high-flow rack-mounted cases and doesn’t deal so well with normal ventilation somewhat optimized to reduce noise. Especially PCIe ethernet cards seem to get really hot, but SATA extension cards are also problematic. Adding some better passive cooling also often helps.
drkt@feddit.dk 9 months ago
What’s that CPU cooler? I’ve been looking for super low profile coolers.
BlovedMadman@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Its the stock CPU cooler that comes with the newer Intel’s (this is a 12th gen i3)
sykan@discuss.online 9 months ago
If I could find a internal server fan smaller then 20x20mm. I’d stick one next to my 1U CPU Cooler. But for some reason I can’t find one. Needs to be smaller then 20x20 because it would sit on top of the motherboard in a closed 1U server rack frame.
2nsfw2furious@lemmynsfw.com 9 months ago
There are centrifugal fans that are quite flat but they intake airflow from a different axis they exhaust it from. Could still work
sykan@discuss.online 9 months ago
Hmm I’ve gotta look into that, It’s Dell Poweredge R410 Server: looks like this: i.ebayimg.com/images/g/…/s-l1600.jpg.
It would need to fit inbetween two heat sinks pretty snug.
scutiger@lemmy.world 9 months ago
You can use a larger fan and a shroud to redirect the air flow, similar to how laptops are cooled.
sykan@discuss.online 9 months ago
I’d like to keep the cooling internal, I just have it sitting on a shelve next too other desktops k3s nodes.
Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Have you had a look at PCI exhaust fans and cable ties as cheaper version of this akasa.co.uk/update.php?tpl=product/product.detail…
sykan@discuss.online 9 months ago
The board doesn’t come with any extra on it. There is one used but it doesn’t boot without that card. Not really sure what it does. It’s a Dell Poweredge R410 Server: looks like this: i.ebayimg.com/images/g/…/s-l1600.jpg
happy_saw@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Tag this as NSFW!!!
Chup@feddit.de 9 months ago
“Recycling brackets”, 1000 pcs bag.
This bag contains already used zip ties in various lengths and colours. You can reuse the items and be creative. Build modern art for your living room, a fan holding bracket for your server or a cool handle for your hot coffee cup.
SiblingNoah@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I just screwed a tiny Noctua right into the heatsink of my LSI. Worked great.
SiblingNoah@lemmy.world 9 months ago
(The screw holes lined up with the gaps)
IamRoot@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Are they the solution?
IamRoot@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Are they?
Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I did this without the zip ties, kind of wedge it between the motherboard and the power cables.
yote_zip@pawb.social 9 months ago
More hard drive slots? No problem! Extra vibrations are good for hard drives probably.
BloodSlut@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Vibrations are movement. Hard drives have moving components. That means that vibrations help read/write speeds!
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Movement… increases speed… that sounds right!
lemann@lemmy.one 9 months ago
I can hear the case vibration in that picture lol
BlovedMadman@lemmy.world 9 months ago
This isn’t a high rpm fan, it’s enough to keep the LSI card cool.
iforgotmyinstance@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Just add hard drives until there is no play for vibration.