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What are you doing with heat? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am starting to wonder why my server system is making SO much heat. I live in Norway, so outside temperature is around freezing, and my house I keep it around 25 degrees inside, except no heating in the server room. It got a roof extraction vent that is constantly sucking out air in that room, and I just had it inspected to be working perfectly fine.

Still its always over 30 degrees in that room, and the hot air is oozing from the server. Its just a consumer based drive and a couple of switches, plus a UPS, and its so warm in there.

Im getting afraid the high temperature can affect the hardware when its 30-35 degrees inside the server rack

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Requirement of both inlet and outlet depends on quite a few things.

In Europe - homes heated by natural/earth gas central heater (sometimes also provides hot water) usually require "mechanical ventilation" - which is just a box with efficient fan that's always running and exhausting at least a little bit of indoor air, and you crank it up when cooking/showering/etc, as well as some form of grill/grate/opening to let outside air in.

It's not only because of using gas for cooking/heating - officially it's also to make sure your house doesn't build up too much of things like Argon that's creeping in from your crawl space/basement/etc.

For example Velux slanted ceiling/roof windows have that ventilation option built in where you can close/lock the window, but still allow fresh air (and no bugs/mosquitos) in.

Otherwise it's either some sort of ventilation grill on your windows/doors, beeing able to slightly tilt/crank some windows, cutout/opening for mail in your front door...

Or any other place where your house is not hermetically sealed :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Too long