Shhhhhhhhh - Ultimate Silent Home Office Rack Powered By Noctua!

Can a case of Noctua fans make the difference in saving work from home sanity? Vince is a creative pro working to edit our video masterpieces, but he also has a day job as a digital imaging tech. He works from a home office/living room, which isn't always the most desirable spot to manage a noisy rack. Not to fear, our friends from Noctua are here! They've supplied a ton of those lively brown fans to see if they can save Vince's sanity!
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[@DaGunzinger]

You might get the noctuas working in the switch by pulling the PWM-pin (blue one) out of the fan cable connector, RPM should still be reported and they should run at 100% :)

[@StorageReview]

Good tip, thanks.

[@djvincon]

@@StorageReview Did it work?

[@sybreeder86]

That rack like like a clone APC Netshelter CX :D I have one at work. And fully closed when is near me it limits noise quite well. maybe taht APC doesn't have as good noise damping as in APC And i think there are less fans and only on rear.

[@juanpablomartinezmahecha7]

i have do the same on my HP Gen8, a pain in the A.., HP requires a trick to avoid problems with the fan detection

[@mr_DIY]

12:00 i used this 40mm fans in my extereme switch 48 Poe. It had 6 screaming fans and pin out for red and black was switched. 2 year, no issues

[@StorageReview]

makes a huge difference.

[@sherrilltechnology]

This is an awesome video I have though about doing the same thing especially in my Dell T410 I put one in my QNAP box and I cannot even hear it, Noctua makes a great fan and cooler which is what I have on my desktop, I really enjoyed this video!

[@StorageReview]

Nice. Thanks for the support. Q

[@TheSomnambulants]

I plan on building something similar in an old server cabinet I found by the roadside.

[@SilentDecode]

Sadly my Synology RS2416+ does not accept Noctua fans. I have bought Noctua fans for it, installed them, but later found out that the drives (and CPU) were getting too hot and it would go into turbo mode, making it louder than the 'quiet mode' with the default fans. I took the Noctua's out and installed the default fans back. I did install a 40mm (non-Noctua) fan on top of the heatsink for the CPU though, and it's connected to a DC-DC stepdown converter. Keeps the CPU nice and less hot. I've also modded my RS2416+ quite a bit, because it was a RS+ in it's previous life. I've swapped the PSUs with a 500W FlexATX (500w, because of the 5v amperage that's needed in that thing for some reason), then it complained about the PSUs not being there, so I swapped the boot module too. Now it's a less powerhungry and more quiet system. I swapped the PSU for multiple reasons: 1. Those fans were DC without RPM sensing, so 100% at 100% of the time. 2. The PSUs weren't Gold+ rated, so they weren't really efficient (dropped down 30w with switching the PSUs in general usage, because the PSUs were getting really hot). 3. I don't really need redundancy anyway. Most of my gear is connected with a single PSU and it's all on an UPS anyway.

[@SaajaadeenJeffries]

Cisco Catalyst 3850 Switch is amazing if you want to change out your current one super quiet basically no noise when powered on even with stock fans

[@StorageReview]

Thanks for the tip!

[@Dabaski]

Awesome video. I’m glad there’s no servers on fire this time

[@StorageReview]

yo be fair, Vince is our video editor so if he did light his own gear on fire he might have edited it out. He's much more vindictive with other people's videos.

[@magnawavezone]

Ya switches are all quite tricky. Even if they have what look to be standard fan headers, often they aren’t. Or they use 5v instead of 12v or some variable voltage instead of pwm. But you still can make things work with some cleverness and maybe a few false starts. But 40mm fans are hard to move any air thru, esp with hotter modern switches. I’ve found noctua fans work, but you also need to add some(hot glued or the like) inside blowing at the cpu/phy heat sinks, SFP cages too. That’s usually enough to make the noctua-ization work. There are also some 40mm silent fans on Amazon/ebay that work better at 5v (but still 12v fans) than noctua and run silent. Not just a quick swap but can make switches waaaay more silent if you are clever.

[@codycrank3465]

More of this plz !!!!

[@StorageReview]

We're glad you enjoyed this. More VInce. Check!

[@jmssun]

8:57 may I ask what model of fan did you use for the Synology Rack? Are they NF-A8? I tried to use them for my RS2821PR+ but they are not responding to DSM fan settings and always causing my drives to overheat 😢

[@StorageReview]

I used the NF-A8FLX, which was fine for the drives but i swapped one of the original fans back in for the CPU, since it kept complaining about temps, even though they were under 60C. - Vince

[@tttomtxhc]

Do you know the part number for the sliding rails on your super micro? I have the same chassis looking to build in but unsure of the rails I need

[@StorageReview]

Supermicro MCP-290-00053-0N

[@oscarcharliezulu]

And a gamers nexus desk mat !

[@StorageReview]

It's a great work surface.

[@thatLion01]

Never this coming! Thank storagereview and noctua

[@StorageReview]

Our pleasure!

[@og_tokyo]

artic sells great 6k and 15k 40mm pwm fans.

[@cybr774]

I was hoping to see this done to an UPS

[@mikekane9734]

Good job.

[@StorageReview]

We appreciate your support.

[@Nimitz_oceo]

Can I ask for the supermicro on what fan mode did you set your fans. I am stuck with an epyc 7551p with a Noctua cooler running on full Speed and when I switch the fan mode to optimized it start raving up and down. And supermicro doesn’t seem to have a solution.

[@leo_craft1]

That's probably because you are trying to cool a 200w cpu with a pc case fan...

[@StorageReview]

I have mine set to Optimal Speed with no issues, but I also I have a significantly less powerful CPU. - Vince

[@bamy187]

what case is that for the pi at 3:35?

[@StorageReview]

From Vince - Some random case off amazon that fits the Pi's PoE hat. Don't have a specific recommendation.

[@StaK_1980]

12:45 - could it be that the Switch has some issues with fans spinning at low RPM ? I see that the original ones are spinning at 5.5k and the Noctua ones are at 1.9k RPM.

[@StorageReview]

yeah there's no options to change the fan speed in the management - Vince

[@StaK_1980]

@@StorageReview what a bummer. 😞 Thanks for the reply!

[@DeathbyKillerBong]

how is it that dust free

[@hyperprotagonist]

The real question is, what is truly dust free?

[@DeathbyKillerBong]

@@hyperprotagonist stellar cores

[@oscarcharliezulu]

Nice beaver

[@StorageReview]

Just had it stufffed!

[@relaxingnature2617]

only came here for 1 video ..but ill return to visit the Cat

[@StorageReview]

Mash that subscribe button and tell a friend or a cat.

[@malexejev]

dB not measured before and after? also, in my practice server PSUs and UPS in the bottom of the rack are typically the loudest guys. I.e. industrial power equipment.

[@StorageReview]

in the video

[@relaxingnature2617]

is that a Cat sleeping on your shoulder ?

[@MyersJ2Original]

You gotta get out of the house and see some daylight man...

[@relaxingnature2617]

is the Cat alive or dead ? ..ask Schrödinger

[@danielk4630]

...cause a fire, or worse.. 😀

[@leo_craft1]

This is really disturbing for a sysadmin... someone please make me breath, i just wanna end this suffer

[@Alan.livingston]

Nah. You’re good. No breath required.

[@Stream4us]

So a video specifically making something quieter but... we don't have decibel readings before the fan switch and after the fan switch... You don't even take those multi-fan panels and compare them side by side with the replacement fans versus the original fans... And there's music playing over the whole thing so we can't hear the difference?

[@StorageReview]

it's in the video

[@leo_craft1]

"Low noise ADAPTER" IT'S NOT AN ADAPTER THE CONNECTIONS ARE THE SAMEEEEE!!!!!!!!! I want to die quicker

[@dvatp]

Music is repetitive and annoying. Please use music only for short periods / transitions or not at all.

[@StorageReview]

we hear you - been experimenting with a few things.