First off, I just want to give credit where credit is due before we start, all photos linked here except where noted are from Amazon.com product pages, and are used to illustrate what I am talking about, to give you some sort of idea of dimensions etc...
My home office, per SWMBO must be moved into the smallest of the bedrooms, for several reasons, and I agree, it makes the most sense, However it does throw a wrench into the works of other ongoing IT related projects.
The music equipment that has been in the master bedroom, will also be moved into the home office, which means it will not only be cramped, and hot in there, but it will need to be quiet!
I will have 2 bass guitars, a 100 watt bass amp that is pretty much a roughly 36" cube, and a Yamaha Portable Grand digital piano.
Now I can handle quieting down the PCs themselves through various efforts such as utilizing cases with silent power supplies, and mounting isolators for drives, silent case fans etc... But even with those technologies in place, there will still be considerable noise especially when I am trying to do some recording.
So out with the wire rack idea for housing my cluster. I need to build something because nothing of the sort of what I need exists that I know of...
I need to build something along the lines of a mission style computer / TV armoire, but with shelves instead of drawers, and enough space to house...
#1. 6 compute nodes in mid tower cases.
#2. 1 filer head / control node in mid tower case.
(same as the compute nodes).
#3. 2 8 bay eSATA RAID enclosures
#4. 7 CyberPower 1500VA UPSes.
#5. 2 8 port gigabit switches (iSCSI SAN fabrics).
#6. Potentially use this to house the cable modem, and 16 port gigabit LAN switch as well.
Photo source, me...
(The router will be placed elsewhere, Possibly on the wall by the ceiling, just behind this unit, so the WiFi signal can be broadcast out the best.)
I am considering something along the lines of this sort of look for the thing. I need to double check my measurements, but I am pretty sure 36" would cut it and then some...
Photo source http://www.weaverfurnituresales.com/...r-Armoire.aspx
I can figure out how to design it for space, and style, but how do I design / build it such that it allows for proper cooling, and cable routing while at the same time silences the inevitable noise coming off of all those fans and disk bearings?
My home office, per SWMBO must be moved into the smallest of the bedrooms, for several reasons, and I agree, it makes the most sense, However it does throw a wrench into the works of other ongoing IT related projects.
The music equipment that has been in the master bedroom, will also be moved into the home office, which means it will not only be cramped, and hot in there, but it will need to be quiet!
I will have 2 bass guitars, a 100 watt bass amp that is pretty much a roughly 36" cube, and a Yamaha Portable Grand digital piano.
Now I can handle quieting down the PCs themselves through various efforts such as utilizing cases with silent power supplies, and mounting isolators for drives, silent case fans etc... But even with those technologies in place, there will still be considerable noise especially when I am trying to do some recording.
So out with the wire rack idea for housing my cluster. I need to build something because nothing of the sort of what I need exists that I know of...
I need to build something along the lines of a mission style computer / TV armoire, but with shelves instead of drawers, and enough space to house...
#1. 6 compute nodes in mid tower cases.
#2. 1 filer head / control node in mid tower case.
(same as the compute nodes).
#3. 2 8 bay eSATA RAID enclosures
#4. 7 CyberPower 1500VA UPSes.
#5. 2 8 port gigabit switches (iSCSI SAN fabrics).
#6. Potentially use this to house the cable modem, and 16 port gigabit LAN switch as well.
Photo source, me...
(The router will be placed elsewhere, Possibly on the wall by the ceiling, just behind this unit, so the WiFi signal can be broadcast out the best.)
I am considering something along the lines of this sort of look for the thing. I need to double check my measurements, but I am pretty sure 36" would cut it and then some...
Photo source http://www.weaverfurnituresales.com/...r-Armoire.aspx
I can figure out how to design it for space, and style, but how do I design / build it such that it allows for proper cooling, and cable routing while at the same time silences the inevitable noise coming off of all those fans and disk bearings?
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