Self-Hosted Homelab Website

Re:Self-Hosted Homelab Website by walrus01 on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @09:00PM (#23484103)

Don't you find the R720 to be astonishingly loud for something to keep at home? 1U/2U size servers are not really designed to be quiet. Maybe if it's way out in a far corner of your garage or basement somewhere...

My home test xen hypervisor is an older Dell desktop mid-tower workstation dual socket/8-core xeon, because it's reasonably quiet.

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Re:Self-Hosted Homelab Website by whalesalad on Thursday June 11, 2020 @02:34PM (#23491911)

This thing is dead silent. I have hard-coded the fans to run at around 1600 rpm (I think they redline around 12-14k rpm)

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHz_AIWMc_E

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Re:Self-Hosted Homelab Website by dzelzs on Thursday June 11, 2020 @02:08AM (#23485657)

You can either manually control the fans with some form of IPMI tools or by disabling the fan offset (needs to be done every reboot though). Then it is actually very bearable, asuming you have good ventilation around it.

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Re:Self-Hosted Homelab Website by simon1573 on Thursday June 11, 2020 @06:16AM (#23487165)

Could you expand on this? My SO is about to kick out my home lab due to noise, so lowering the fans RPM would be amazing!

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Re:Self-Hosted Homelab Website by whalesalad on Thursday June 11, 2020 @02:24PM (#23491784)

https://gist.github.com/whalesalad/711d57bf4c3a37a5a5a5855c5...

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