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Originally Posted by Inaba
57 db my ass! I should have clarified - I have a bunch of Dell 2U rack mount servers with these fans. They are, by far, the loudest fans I have EVER heard in a rack. I had one of the cases in my cube for repair and I literally could not turn it on outside of one of the equipment rooms because it would disturb the entire floor.
Once I put it in the case in one of our equipment rooms, my boss walked by and asked what the hell that wracket was coming from behind a solid wooden door, and STILL disturbing the whole floor.
Really, words just can't describe the piercing whine these things make. They are tolerable at lower speeds, but at full blast, they are just simply unusable if you have to be within 100 feet of them (even if there's walls between you and them - walls don't stop this frequency apparently).
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db rating scale expodentially...57 dBa might actually be possible...
OT whoa, who can take such noisy servers...