8 Dumb upgrades for our aging Rackstation Synology [Lower noise and powerdraw]

[@MisterKyle93]

damn noctua's fan really do the job

[@Ottetal]

Yeah, they are really quiet. They don't push a whole lot of air though, so I'm trying to find replacements.

[@mattbucci3724]

Fun video, thanks for sharing. I like the rack you put together.

[@Ottetal]

Thank you so much friend!

[@xabhax]

so you used a SFX power supply because of fan placement. You then covered the fan with foam. Make it make sense

[@Ottetal]

@@xabhax 2cm gap between foam and top of PSU.

[@elikirkwood4580]

very cool video, I recently did similar upgrades to a buffalo terrastation nas that had the original motherboard die. the backplane on it was unfortunately not able to be used with the new board because it used some odd proprietary connector to handle spinning the drives up. I pulled it out and just wired them individually since they're sata drives anyways. It's currently my cold backup for my main nas, and I need to get around to setting up wake on lan to allow the main one to back itself up automatically. One thing you might look at here is weather that foam is blocking the new psu from getting air because it seemed like it was a little close to the fan

[@Ottetal]

That sounds nice! Could you have harvested the connector from the old motherboard and build a new cable? There is a ~2cm gap between the PSU intake fan and the foam, so it should be fine, thanks

[@johnvanwinkle4351]

Dumb? Upgrading is fun…..😄 Great job on the updates!!!!

[@Ottetal]

Having fun with dumb upgrades is a great way to spend time. Thank you for the kind words friend :)

[@ecotts]

Nice video, that made a huge difference on the sound side of things.

[@Ottetal]

Cheers, thank you friend

[@leonelantonio36]

Nice Vid!

[@Ottetal]

Thank you very much friend :)

[@Sayrix]

I love servers video

[@kaischwab1239]

Very cool to see this, and thanks for sharing, but... - Your DIY air baffles may affect the air flow on voltage regulator module parts on the mainboard. - I'd be highly interested in the temperatures of your 12 hard drives AFTER the Noctua swap. Do you use 7,200 rpm drives, or slower ones? - I could see some crumps of dried old thermal paste between your LGA fins, which gave me goose bumps: it is not only a high risk to contact problems, but even may damage those fragile fins.

[@Ottetal]

Hello friend, thank you for the kind words. I don't think the voltage regulators will take harm with less airflow, since the new CPU puts siginficantly less load on both MOSFETs and vreg. Good comment, I'll keep it in mind in a future video I am actually "only" using 8 hard drives - the four middle drives are all SSDs. That being said, the noctuas don't push enough air, and drive temps shot to mid 40s. It's still within spec, but I've also read the backblaze report. My next video (should be uploaded tomorrow) will go into what I consider the perfect fans for this box I agree on the thermalpaste. Rest assured, I took it out off camera, but only I know that - and observant viewers like yourself will rightfully cringe. Have a good day :)

[@kaischwab1239]

@@OttetalI just viewed your update to this - you really tamed those Arctic beasts! ^_^ The temps now look very acceptable - great job, and thank you for the insights!

[@Ottetal]

@@kaischwab1239 Thank you so much for the kind words friend. And I agree, these new fans really do the job!

[@antoniom.andersen6704]

Great vid, upgrading/downgrading is always fun. Is the server able to run any other OS than the Synology OS? Hvorom alting er var det en god video. Hvor i landet er du fra? Vejle her👋

[@Ottetal]

Thank you for the kind words! :) Other users have suggested installing a different OS, which I think is a splendid idea. This is however my only SAN at the moment, and I don't want to take it offline and install a to me unverified OS. Jeg er fra københavn :)

[@antoniom.andersen6704]

@@Ottetal Yeah, I get the thing with the OS. Unraid might be an option down the line. Håber det hele kommer til at lykkedes hvad end du finder på :)

[@AdaptiveSystems]

mate, thats savage burn made me LOL IRL. does this have 10GBE? if not add that, and go back the the quad core.also add a couple of NVME drives as cache on it, it'kk speed it up massivly.

[@Ottetal]

Thank you for the kind words. The server used to have 2x10G with SFP+ ports, but I don't need the speed. I have dual gigabit to my Compute nodes and a single gigabit link for management and use with my main system. I think I'll go three gigabit links to compute nodes in the future. Same with the CPU, I don't need the extra performance right now, and would rather have the lower powerdraw. I am keeping a keen eye on usage though - if it goes up, I'll swap back

[@jonathanmayor3942]

Careful with the buffle next to the ram, they also need good airflow if you want them not to overheat 🙌

[@Ottetal]

Thanks - I'll be sure to monitor the temperature

[@arigornstrider]

Oof, that dig at Americans (I am one). You got a good laugh out of me.

[@Ottetal]

Glad you liked it :) Cheap laughs are great laughs

[@Havocpsi]

Bro you caught that too lol

[@moaalseiari4115]

It is good job. Server looks neat. I seriously would try to reinstall into a linux distro and use ZFS to manage the system.

[@Ottetal]

Ooooooh, that's a good idea. The SATA DOM is accessible on the motherboard. I need the server to be online at the time, as it's my only storage system right now. I'll do it in the future! :)

[@magnusll110]

Af alle ting jeg havde tænkt jeg ville finde på mit youtube fead her til morgen havde jeg ikke lige troet jeg ville havde faldet over en video af selveste Jonas ham selv. God video 🤘 Mvh Magnus "uncorrectable ecc errors"

[@Ottetal]

Gud hold da op, det er sgu da kong conscia som den kære youtube algoritme har skubbet videoen ud til! Det er eddersparkme grineren :D Tak homie!

[@ph0t0experience]

I wonder if the sound dampening foam makes an impact on the thermals... I mean I could, but then again it ain't touching anything!

[@Ottetal]

It's not touching, and not obstructing airflow, so it's not affecting thermals. If anything, having a slightly narrower internal dimension for air to go through should direct air even more over the active components. This is probably such a small degree, that it's not measurable within the variance I can measure

[@fl4k664]

Nice upgrade, however i'm not really into the idea of covering the psu fan.... with the foam that you use, maybe it's me but i dans see how the air flow can be good for the psu

[@Ottetal]

The PSU still have access to fresh air, there is a gap between foam and fan intake on around ~2cm

[@fl4k664]

@@Ottetal OK thanks for the answer 👍

[@C0ND3C3R0]

great synology... but there is more pretty things on that rack!

[@Ottetal]

@@C0ND3C3R0 which ones do you mean? 😘

[@C0ND3C3R0]

​@@OttetalU have a couple more of synology stuff. guess a lot of TBs xD. That rack itself is a prettier thing. And i assume there was a server or a bunch of virtual machines to manage all the data contained

[@kyleallred984]

The cpu wasn't a down grade. It was an efficiency upgrade.

[@switcE]

hello! i never understood what a NAS are used for how can they be helpful and how small can they get! (sorry for the stupid qustion)

[@Ottetal]

@@switcE no worries mate. A NAS (Network attached Storage) is like putting a hard disk on your local network and giving it an IP address. By doing so, you make the file on the NAS accessible by all of the computers on your network. This is smart for several applications, for instance: 1: Because the NAS is powered on at all times, you can power off your primary computer, and still access files. 2: Since the NAS only serves files, it can be very low power 3: As said before, multiple machines can access the same files, without needing to move memory sticks 4: Since they are connected to the network, they can be put in the basement where their noise and heat output does not matter. The size of the NAS can be as small as a pack of gum, and theoretically as large as a fridge

[@ColaTai]

Beep boop!

[@Ottetal]

Boop beep boob!!

[@Xurikyo]

No 4090 or 7950x3d? no 49'' 240hz monitor? pass.

[@seidmadur]

Not sure about those air baffles. If fan2 fails, your cpu might fry.

[@Dextermorga]

That noise dumping foam is making thermals worse.

[@Ottetal]

Interesting view. How does it make thermals worse?

[@KarlMeyer]

@@Ottetal I don't know how it would make thermals worse. Makes no sense to me? I want to mention that you forgot to add a link to the stuff in the description. I'd be interested in picking some up to play with.

[@Ottetal]

@@KarlMeyer It would seem as though they have restocked since. Here is the link friend: www.moddiy.com/products/modDIY-Sound-Dampening-Foam-Material-%288mm%29.html The foam making thermals worse to me, makes no sence either. Someone said on a forum that because heat could not radiate to the metal and then out of the chassis, I would overheat in an instance, which *maybe* could have some merit, if it was not for the four giant fans negating all heat to case trasnfer.

[@KarlMeyer]

@@Ottetal Exactly right, I thought the same thing. Thanks for the link!

[@leo_craft1]

I JUST HATE NOCTUA FANS when put into a server

[@Ottetal]

Why so lad? So just to clarify; you like the fans, you like them in a desktop, but HATE them in a server?

[@leo_craft1]

@@Ottetal completely fricks the airflow

[@Ottetal]

@@leo_craft1 aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh, you gotta be joking mate. Nice one.

[@deniskornja762]

Downgrading well kinda not the solution. An 2.3ghz will just run non stop at that speed an 3.0hz will run 2.0-3.0 I'm giving examples and the 2.3ghz will go 100% non stop while 3.0ghz will go 20-80% which is kinda questionable downgrading you're actually making it worse. The solution would've been arctic freezer 3 aio with the noctua fans not those but yeah, remake the interior so that aio can actually fit. Put small noctua fans where the cpu and motherboard is like 3 is ok, psu fan doesn't matter if the fan it's up or down just it doesn't have holes so kinda useless so make holes. Better than that you won't get. But downgrading an cpu only because of sound like big uhhhhh 💀.

[@Renull55]

no music next time pls it takes away from the vid

[@Ottetal]

Yeeeeeeah, I agree. I need to get much better at volume control, it was too loud. Thank you for the tip

[@aijokker]

It was loud and obnoxious like american machine

[@Ottetal]

@@aijokker touche. I was eating a bigmac while editing, I’m excused

[@aijokker]

@@Ottetal there is no excuse to eat bigmac 🪦

[@Ottetal]

@@aijokker it’s what the rest of the World does, when they Want to cosplay as American

[@typkrft]

Such disdain for a country that saved you from Nazi occupation.

[@Ottetal]

@@typkrft what a weird American comment. If the only nice thing your country did, was that you fought another war 80 years ago, you should go look up IBMs war effort for the German state and come back :)

[@typkrft]

The world looks forward to the mighty Danes future contributions.

[@Ottetal]

@@typkrft Thank you friend. I look forward to bringing you addtional content, possibly with more jabs at your mighty country

[@typkrft]

@@Ottetal no one is upset about the jab at America. Most people know Danes can’t throw a punch anyway. Which is why they rolled over for the Germans. I just found the comment odd. I’ve never heard an America take a jab at Dane. Maybe you are the loud, noisy, fan.