Taming the Beast - New Server Vlog - P2

this thing is a little loud so in today's project I'm going to look on how I can quiet the Beast and still get the cooling performance or at least something similar to the cooling performance that I get out of it now he's as you can tell it's loud as hell what's up you too Jason here with bite my bits as you saw in the intro that is my server as it stands it is still super loud so I'll tell you what I've been doing and what I've done to it in order to try to lower the sound overall but it's still not good enough so I went into my old boxes that I had for the noctua fans that I put into this server right and some of those boxes that had PWM resistors inside the box if I didn't use for this server because the server runs just as quiet as I need it to be and I used those resistors in on two of those fans which did help a little bit but just one of those fans that's loud enough to drive me absolutely insane so what you heard is actually a reduced noise version of my server now I did this hopefully to get like a cheap easy fix but it didn't really work out especially because I don't have all the resistors I need for one and two even with those resistors those fans are still loud so what I've been doing actually is I've been playing around with unread now my previous video was bouncing back and forth between freenas and unrated still leaning in the direction of unring unread however I actually hadn't run on raid at that point so now I'm officially running on rate I've got a trial keep going I did messing around with freenas for a little bit it's not really a new world to me I've messed with FreeNAS before I've actually had a freenas server on my old cue 6600 and CPU that was originally my plex server so I've been there and I've done that but I was just kind of ream essing around what they kind of exploring some some of the newer features and options and changes that has been implemented into freenas since the last time I've used it and I can say that back with freenas and I'm no genius here and you guys all know this I'm learning as I go along but getting back into free nafs' I found myself again googling a lot of things just to kind of get through the system and get certain things set up and it's not just like Plex related this is I was exploring two other things you know vm's and plugins and all kinds of stuff that I could just seeing what else I could do with my server after I get it built the freeness is actually installed on a 60 gigabyte SSD that came with the server when I ordered it and what I did is I just unplugged that through my Lexar USB Drive that I ordered specifically for this server to run on rate and I installed the unreal to that and since then I've been playing with unright and it's been very interesting I've had a Google a few things but for the most part it's all just you know simple and I really like it actually it's actually kind of winning over my heart right now and I think I think I'm pretty much sold on unread I mean to be honest so they might answer the question number one that I had in the previous video as far as what operating system then I got these now these are basically small form-factor rj45 or I'm sorry SF SFP two rj45 thank you to those in the comments who recommended these this is awesome I had some people that recommended an HP branded cable I also ordered that it's thrown in the closet right now because it didn't work it did not work with my HP procurve even though the cable and I bought was an HP pro procurve certified cable so I don't know what I did wrong there I don't know if maybe these points just don't work I don't know but I decided to stop messing with it and I just went down this route so I did throw like 30 or 40 bucks down the drain getting the SF or getting the HP branded SFP cable but in the end this is the life saver so I think I'm gonna have to get another one of these because these are these are nice actually I'm gonna have to look into something else aside from this maybe not even have to get another one of these because after I installed unrated I went into the device list for my server and this is awesome and I found out that the two FS are SFP ports that I have on the server board built-in are both 10 gigabits so what that means is it most likely once I get everything set up running good to go right I got that one SFP port going from the SFP to rj45 running to one of these plugins right now that's up and running at full one gigabit and that second port I think I'm going to be able to plug that in directly with the current SFP cable that I have running from my server to my main computer and link them both together with 10 gigabit so Halla freaking lujah praised in the noodle Lord everything's gonna work out hopefully it's all really at this point about configuration and compatibility with the cables and the servers and that sort of thing but I think I might be able to get it to work I really I really think that that problem solved it's just a matter of doing it at this point not necessarily having the right stuff I think but on to today's project and the entire reason for this video sorry for the long intro is it's still classified as an intro noise reduction alright so these are just a few fans that I have that are PWM fans this is a 120 I think this is a one these are one 40s now these actually these are the NZXT fans that came with my Kraken now if you guys remember if you guys saw my other video this was originally with the Kraken that all in one water cooler and they were loud as hell I mean they they're pretty bad right not as bad as the the new server but they were pretty bad so I replaced these things as quick as I could and this is this is a cooler master I think this came with my case or something I don't know but it's a hundred twenty millimeter pwm controlled fan these are basically what I have that are PWM at this point so I wanted to make sure that whatever I plug in with my with my up-and-coming test will plug directly into the motherboard be PWM controlled by the motherboard by the operating system or by the everything and built into the computer so I don't have to mess with anything on my end now in my server there is kind of like a firewall looking thing or just like a mounting bracket that has all of my fans hooked up to it they're a little 80 millimeter fans from what I can tell and I haven't actually done this yet but from what I can tell these have screws on the inside and the outside and primarily on the outside that I can take apart and remove this entire thing so now this is good for one primary reason that means I can take it out and I can modify it however I please in order to get the fans that I want to run in the system however if I go in there and I start chopping up right to try to get this sound down just a little bit and it doesn't work cooling wise from my processing unit then I'm gonna be in deep I mean I'm gonna just ruin this thing I'm not gonna have mount the built-in cooler that came with the server and I'm gonna be up creek without a paddle type of thing right so here's my idea and here's my my my testing for today is I am going to use cardboard yes that's right cardboard I'm gonna take this little firewall thing that mounts to my fans right now I'm gonna take this out I'm gonna use it as kind of like a template and then I'm gonna cut some up some cardboard and i'ma mount cardboard in there after I mount some fans in there now you might be asking yourself why am i using two 140 s and then 1 120 that's actually a good question and it's all because of the wires see here on the side I have one one side I have SAS connectors and on the other side I have power connectors for the hard drives and the fans so with all those connectors and wires going through the server I do need some room on both side so when I was kind of measuring things out I was putting three 140 s all together I just didn't have any room to put it any cables so I do have to make a sacrifice and figure out you know where I want to 140 s and 1 120 and still have room to put wires and run them you know from the front to the back so that's kind of what I'm going with I'm hoping that I can do two 140 s and 1 120 I might end up only been able to do you know 1 140 and then to 120 s I'm not entirely sure but I'm gonna roll with the idea of two 140 s and 1 120 mostly because I only have those 4 pwm fan controls right now so I could probably dig I might have some more 120 s but right now this is what I'm rolling with okay now that I got this out I can use this for a template to build my little cardboard ghetto fix thing it's not really a fix just testing I don't actually anticipate using it permanently but this will allow me to test it out once I get a piece of cardboard that's this size cut out some poles for the fans put those fans into the computer hook up everything like normal and see how things run so that's the idea here that's the reason why I'm doing this so as you can see I really don't want to cut this up unless I know for sure it's gonna work now I've been running my server and I've been running some tests I have some hard drives in there I have about four or five hard drives in there right now some of them most of them are lower gigabyte like 500 gigabyte drives but I've been testing it out I also installed VMware or I'm sorry I also installed a VM it's a Windows 7 and I've been running prime95 with all the processing units being used so or all the cores being used so with that running and I'm talking maybe 10 to 15 minutes of prime95 running I peek right around 62 degrees give or take I mean it's usually a little bit lower but 62 degrees is about the highest that I've been seeing now when it was running more or less idle with not much going on on the server I was hovering between 38 to 42 degrees Celsius so those are the numbers that I have to start with and I'm gonna use those numbers to see if this is successful when I had and replace or when I replace these 80 millimeter fans with a hundred and 40 and 120 so that's my goal and hopefully this works okay so took a little bit of creativity and some cardboard but I did finally get everything put back together so it's not perfect it's not attached in any way I'm not trying to make this a permanent solution this is more again just a test just to see if these three fans can keep this server cool under a heavy load now I I do realize there are some flaws with this test for example I only have four hard drives in it and they're not all going to be working right now so the airflow is gonna be a little bit more than what it would be if I do start to get this thing filled up all the way but if I do go with unread most likely as far as the the heat produced from the hard drives I'm not gonna have a large amount of heat production in any one point from all of my hard drives that is because I am going with under a Dan done raid really stores files two single drives at a time so like if I have a movie file that I'm copying to the server and Plex is going to be using that movie file it's only going to spin up that one drive in order to read off of it so that's gonna be a bonus for me because it's gonna cut down overall in the heat and I think that's going to be a reason why I'm going to move towards unread vs. FreeNAS just to try to save myself on some heat because I am taking this kind of ass backwards way of cooling my system this of course versus FreeNAS where if you're building a pool like I was I was I pretty much landed on six drives in a pool I know somebody asked me you know why are you married to the whole six pool idea or the six drive and a pool idea well for me it's just like well if you have two drives you know for parity and then you have four more dries I can you know that was the most rational amount of drives that I could I could think of to start with build that pool copy my stuff over to it and then start with another set of six Drive so that's just what made sense to me but it doesn't really matter because I would end up going with unrated think at this point so yeah and unfree NASA is gonna spin up everything all six of those drives all at once and for whatever reason if I'm reading from two different things like let's say there's two movies being watched or a movie in a TV show being watched that's twelve drives that are going to be spun up all at the same time so that would produce a lot more heat than a would if let's say only had two or four drives spun up at the same time as far as the air flow goes I don't know how much that's going to change definitely going to keep an eye on my server I'm gonna see if this dog haven't even try to boot it up yet so this is going to be interesting to see if this thing boots up make sure that you know the fans don't conflict with the motherboard and give any kind of error so I'm gonna I'm gonna try to boot this up and then if it does boot up I'm gonna keep a close eye on the temperature at idle you know just as it boots up see if there's any issues right off the bat and then I'm gonna start my virtual machine and I'm gonna start prime95 which does stress all of the CPU cores and then I'm gonna see if basically it stays the same or maybe a little bit higher I don't know I think I can get up to around 80 degrees Celsius if I really wanted to I don't want to but I think with the onion to anything underneath 80 degrees is going to be doable I would still like to keep it hopefully below 70 maybe 65 that's my goal if this doesn't work then I really need to look into you know water cooling or some other kind of solution for it so let's go ahead and try to see if this thing boots up let's do one quick little run-through make sure everything is not touching the fans everything's plugged in I got all these fans hook up to the motherboard everything's connected so assuming I hooked everything up correctly this should work should for some reason that kicked on my backup power supply I'm not sure why all right it's not working but okay try number two I'd rearranged some stuff macht okay so I got it to boot up turns out for some reason one of the rams came out of the slot just a little bit no idea why I didn't touch the RAM so yeah anyways I just noticed it when I was putting back together like wait a minute this should be all the way in so I got everything plugged in now got it turned on for some reason when I plugged in my server it turned on the fan to my power supply question one but this this was doing something I don't know what happened it was working I don't know ah there it is okay well three of those raid cards it does take a little bit tougher to go through the boot up process so I'm gonna let it boot up and I'm gonna get into the unrig graphic user interface and then probably telnet in just to see what the the temps are running at and then if that's good I'm gonna move on with my tests okay so I got everything powered on got the beams running and the stress test going I've been running it for about ten minutes now and I have to say I'm impressed with the results I'm happy ish with the results but take a listen okay so what you just heard is the stress test running the CPUs at 100% so the fans should be full-blown I would imagine they're they're at full rotation right now so that's as loud as it should get I think and that's that is worlds away from what it was before so that's pretty cool honestly I've been checking out some of the temperatures keeping an eye on it through telnet or through putty I'm sorry and it looks like the peak that I've seen is about 76 to 77 but it does stay around 75 after again you know 10 15 minutes worth of stress tests at 100% so it's a little high right just a little bit high but it is still manageable I think and I think it actually says a lot for what I could do with this you know maybe with some better fans and obviously a more professional set up maybe it is time to go through and and modify that plate that came with it that I took out now that I know that this works now I could probably you know cut that up and actually add good fans to it maybe I'll look at some Noctua fans maybe I'll look at some other ones I'm not really sure right now this is just kind of step one so it's looking pretty good I think step two for me honestly is going to be figuring out a way to monitor the temperatures of my rate cards even though they're not gonna be full-blown balls-to-the-wall for the most part just because most the time most of the discs are not be spend enough there's gonna be some parity rebuild if I ever have to change add or remove or whatever some drives so that could cause more drives to be active at the same time so that could start to commute to get some heat built up in those so I gotta find a way to try to monitor those temperatures just to make sure that those aren't gonna overheat because I know that could be an issue so and if that is an issue then I have to look at something else I don't know I got it I could approach that whenever it comes up so but for now everything look everything is looking good I'm gonna run some more tests continue to run some tests and kind of mess with it probably gonna go ahead and get this video edited because I think I've pretty much done what I can do but while I was going through those I was posting a picture to Twitter and I was thinking you know what something like this probably does deserve some sort of a name you know I've never named a computer or a server before so yeah yeah well should I name this thing I don't know I haven't really named one and and I'll be looking for some ideas so give me some ideas down in the comments below so that's it for today thank you for watching and following my little you know it is guide to a server thing that I'm doing for this so this is part two I'm not exactly sure what part three is going to be but it's probably going to be revolving around networking and maybe solidifying this whole fan solution that I've created today but I can subscribe below and have a good day

Channel: Byte My Bits

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Keywords: Dual, xeon, server, media, plex, sound, fans

Id: 095hggdubq4

Length: 19min 24sec (1164 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 29 2016