Re: [LAD] A question for power HW experts

On Thursday 06 August 2009 05:33:58 Arnold Krille wrote:
> On Thursday 06 August 2009 10:58:30 you wrote:
> > Arnold Krille wrote:
> > > On Thursday 06 August 2009 00:41:23 Esben Stien wrote:
> > >> Fons Adriaensen <fons@email-addr-hidden> writes:
> > >>> Rack mount is preferred but not essential.
> > >>
> > >> What are you talking about..!?!?. Of course, it's essential;).
> > >
> > > Some metal brackets and some screws will do nicely. No need to pay some
> > > vendors overpriced metal brackets and screws. :-D
> > > If it doesn't fit, use a larger hammer.
> >
> > Maybe vendors overpriced rack mount equipment decouple vibrations to
> > avoid noise.
>
> No, they don't. I know from looking at the two racks in my lab filled with
> 5- rack-units machines.
>
> Some require you to have a support because they really only provide the
> brackets for the front, some (the better ones) have sliding pullouts and
> use the brackets at the front only for fixation.
> But there is certainly no noise-reduction involved. Why? Machines of this
> form-factor are normally inside a closed (but cooled!) rack inside a noisy
> computer room.
> It is only us audio-people sometimes searching for 19" devices (with only
> half the normal depth) that make as little noise as possible to use them
> inside the studio- or live-rack.

On the windows side, we just bought some machines from Rain Recording (iirc)
that are in our onair studios. Custom case to fit in our slide out and rotate
in cabinate racks. Machines have hot swap sata raid iirc and are not overly
noisy.

I seem to recall a claim of them being good to go with linux too but don't
hold me to that if you follow up on this. Get verification.
>
> Have fun,
>
> Arnold

all the best,

drew
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Received on Thu Aug 6 20:15:07 2009