From: Mike '/m' 

On Sun, 8 Jun 2003 22:08:20 -0400, "Geo."  wrote:

>"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
>news:85i7evoqv5odhrh1u7qfs86jfoh8g9ifgm{at}4ax.com...
>
>> One thing I look at on new servers is the amount of air that blows
>> through them.   Dell is excellent in this regard.   Lots of air movement,
>> and a good placement of the fans.
>
>I've got a rackmount server with 3 fans about halfway back thru the case
>that makes it work sort of like a jet engine pulling air thru the front half
>and blowing it thru the back half.

My IBM X330 1U rackmount has a bunch of fans:

2 for the disk drives
2 on each of the two CPUs
2 for the power supply

Lots of noise.  Good thing it's in Canada.  :-)

 /m

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