New to this homelab stuff, is there a way to make it quieter? - eviltoast

*** WARNING *** I am a complete newbie at this!

So I just received a new Nutanix rack mounted server from a friend, two nodes and I don’t intend to run Nutanix on it.

I don’t have a rack or means of mounting it so it is just sitting on a table for now, without any soundproofing. Is it possible to use pwm to control the fans? As far as i can tell, the motherboard can control the fan speeds, like at startup.

Could i replace the fans with a noctua fan?

  • ModerateBiscuit@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I built with consumer hardware.

    Be Quiet case, with a Dark Rock Pro 4. Only noise I hear from the case is HDD noise when stuff gets written to the array. I’m currently sitting half way betw