Re: Firing up a Power 8... Does yours sound like a jet engine? -- MIDRANGE-L

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Power8's are quieter than Power7's but it takes quite a while for them to slow the fans down to that point. Warm up the area a bit though and they will get noisy quickly.

The noisiest thing in many of the DCs I get into are those dang cisco fiber switches used for the UCS chassis. They are 1U boxes and the fans scream at all times drowning out almost everything in the area including EVRERYthing in any Power Systems racks.

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On 6/19/2016 2:24 PM, James H. H. Lampert wrote:

On 6/17/16, 6:42 PM, Bradley Stone wrote:

I just had to shut of my Power 8 (model 41A) for a storm passing
through..
just in case.

When we first put our present UPS into service, it was so damn noisy I
ended up putting an auxiliary fan on it, just to suppress the internal
fan from coming on when the inverter wasn't running.

Our E4A is noisy enough as it is. Power 8s are even noisier?

We had, at one time, a big Sun workstation around the office that
sounded like a vacuum cleaner.

--
JHHL

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