Adding a Fan Controller for a Truly Silent Server
Added 2021-04-29 19:28:07 +0000 UTCVideo: https://youtu.be/nAwwhFipVWQ
I couldn't leave well enough alone and bought a fan controller for my server. I was just going to deal with it, but I sunk so much money into the fans and was so close to having a silent server that I just had to try. And it turned out it was a good thing I did because I am extremely happy with the results!
This should conclude my server saga for a while. I need to setup some drives and play around with bcache to try to optimize some things but that will all be pretty fiddly and boring.
I don't spend a lot of time on this in the video, but I've also FINALLY solved my linux issues with DaVinci Resolve! This video was edited with only s single crash happening instead of the dozens I've been putting up with recently. The fix was switching from NFS to SMB for reasons that I don't fully understand but are related to how Resolve generates audio waveform cache files. This is such a huge burden lifted now. With that and the server being finished I have now finally got myself back into the position I was at in 2018 when I was editing with Blender where I can edit entirely from linux and offload long tasks to my server.
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It's really nice to finally have it all "done" now. It had actually been a bit of a burden recently with not just trying to work around the issues but constantly trying different solutions to diagnose the issue. Now that it's over I can stop worrying about all that and just use everything.
Tech Tangents
2021-04-30 00:35:13 +0000 UTCCongrats on the sweet new set up! Must be a real mental load off having it all working as intended. Really happy to see you were able to make the most of your fan upgrade there.
electricitynerd
2021-04-29 23:45:50 +0000 UTCI did and got about 17.5GBps. I haven't done any real tuning so I'm not sure how to get more or less out of it. I used `balance-rr` mode under Netplan to set it up and that was about it.
Tech Tangents
2021-04-29 22:46:52 +0000 UTCCare to do some 'iperf' tests to see if your 10gig bonded NICs really get to 20 Gbps or close, and then share your results? I got some 10gig bonded NICs at work, but I only get 10 Gbps total distributed among all my bonded NICs.
Hugo Cardozo
2021-04-29 22:04:03 +0000 UTC
