Michael Bahr
jedi at charm.net
Mon Jul 19 11:22:28 CDT 2010
John, the CPU temp looks unusually high, 55C. Were you playing any games during the testing? Is this the idle temp? Mike... > I bought the Norco 4020 to build a server with. > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811219021&cm_re=4u_rackmount_case-_-11-219-021-_-Product > > I am impressed with the case, though it is consumer grade. It is tough to > work with however. It > has a fan wall just behind the disk drive cage which leaves exactly two > inches between the fans and > the disk backplanes. Obviously it is impossible to leave the wall in > place and get all of the > cables in, but removing the fan wall is a job for a safe cracker. > > None the less I did so, got 20 disks in and cabled up, then reinserted the > fan wall, and then > threaded the cables through the holes in the BOTTOM of the fan wall. Why > on earth they didn't leave > the holes on the top of the fan wall is beyond me but they didn't. > > Anyway, for the first time tonight I tested temps with all 20 drives > inserted and power applied, and > the fan wall operating. I ran a defrag on every volume simultaneously in > order to cause the disks > to work and generate as much heat as I could cause. > > Below are the temps. > > CPU Temperature 55 ºC > Ctrl Temperature 49 ºC > Power +12V 12.099 V > Power +5V 5.053 V > Power +3.3V 3.328 V > SATA PHY +2.5V 2.528 V > DDR-II +1.8V 1.872 V > PCI-E +1.8V 1.872 V > CPU +1.8V 1.856 V > CPU +1.2V 1.232 V > DDR-II +0.9V 0.928 V > Hdd#1 Temperature 37 ºC > Hdd#2 Temperature 40 ºC > Hdd#3 Temperature 42 ºC > Hdd#4 Temperature 39 ºC > Hdd#5 Temperature 47 ºC > Hdd#6 Temperature 51 ºC > Hdd#7 Temperature 49 ºC > Hdd#8 Temperature 46 ºC > Hdd#9 Temperature 37 ºC > Hdd#10 Temperature 49 ºC > Hdd#11 Temperature 44 ºC > Hdd#12 Temperature 47 ºC > Hdd#13 Temperature 45 ºC > Hdd#14 Temperature 50 ºC > Hdd#15 Temperature 49 ºC > Hdd#16 Temperature 42 ºC > > There are only 16 drives showing because these 16 are cabled up to my > Areca raid co-processor card > which is a 16 port card, and that card provides a utility to watch these > numbers. The other disks > are not being driven but do have power applied. > > I am satisfied with the temps. Several disks actually hit 53 degrees C > under max stress but that is > acceptable to me. I would like lower temps but I can live with these. > > BTW I am using the Corsair 750W modular PS which is a NICE PS. > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139010 > > The 12V cables are ribbon cables which makes them very easy to run and > minimizes the air flow > impedance. With only 2 inches to work with between the fans and disks, I > need all the help I can get. > > -- > John W. Colby > www.ColbyConsulting.com > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >