[Noisebridge-discuss] Storing a server, outside?

[Jeremy K]

if you take these suggestions at face value, you might find that you'd
be better off building an un-heated, well-ventilated but well-filtered
room off the side of your house, like a custom basement.

what's the trade-off with buying a quieter computer instead?

--jeremy

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:19 PM, ian <ian at sonic.net> wrote:
>> My found solution is the possibility of running the machine outside on the
>> back porch. The area is safe from weather (sun and rain), but still very
>> much open up to the rest of the outside world. I have access to a power drop
>> in the kitchen that runs off of a separate breaker, and I've already got
>> ethernet running to that side of the house.
>
> If this were an embedded computer, I'd say throw it in a NEMA-4
> enclosure and forget it.  Your need for ventilation makes it more
> tricky.  In your neighborhood, the main things you'll want to control
> for are dust and humidity.  Filters work for dust, but water is harder
> to deal with and it gets quite foggy there.
>
> I wonder if there's a way to ventilate the box using air from inside
> the house.  Like, using a couple chunks of dryer duct from an insert
> stuck in a convenient window, with a fan at the computer-box side.
> Then again, this would raise your heating bill by an unknown amount
> unless you piped the same air back into the house.
>
> Which you could do, actually.  Some of the noise from the machines
> would come back through the duct, but you could add a duct silencer
> like this one:
>
> http://www.acousticalsurfaces.com/hvac/duct_silen.htm?d=26
>
> They're pricey (http://www.mcmaster.com/#search/2775K1), but I bet you
> could make your own out of a cardboard box and some acoustic foam for
> a couple dollars.
>
> You'd want to make sure to direct the exhaust air away from the inlet
> to get good cooling efficiency.
>
> -Ian
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