From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 9 10:40:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from peak.mountin.net (peak.mountin.net [207.227.119.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DDAB37B811 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 10:40:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jeff-ml@mountin.net) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by peak.mountin.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id MAA24938; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 12:40:24 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jeff-ml@mountin.net) Received: from dial-100.max1.wa.cyberlynk.net(207.227.118.100) by peak.mountin.net via smap (V1.3) id sma024936; Thu Mar 9 12:40:14 2000 Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.20000309123817.0093e790@207.227.119.2> X-Sender: jeff-ml@207.227.119.2 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 12:38:17 -0600 To: Mike Squires , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: Drive cooling In-Reply-To: <200003092212.RAA67477@sir-alan.chem.indiana.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 05:12 PM 3/9/00 -0500, Mike Squires wrote: > >The cheapest method is to bolt a 5 inch fan to two front panel blanking plates, >with an empty space the size of one plate inbetween, and then connect it to >the PS. This will be more reliable than the $150/each drive trays, since >the fans are larger and can be easily monitored and you eliminate several >SCSI connectors with each drive supported this way. It does look ugly, >though... SuperMicro's 750 cases (AT or ATX) have cages that mount on either side of the drive bay. The covers have vents, so you can set up a nice push/pull cooling setup. Jeff Mountin - jeff@mountin.net Systems/Network Administrator FreeBSD - the power to serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message