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Neil Williams wrote: | | Simon will have something to say about that.
My first two reactions were Mini ITX and Minimac.... So I was going to keep quiet.
| Steve's request was for a server - depending on what he needs, MacOSX is not | necessarily a good choice for a server that needs to work with GNU/Linux | boxes.
The Minimac has one of these whisper quiet fans, whereas the Mini-ITX were only at 600MHz with no fan when I bought, I think they now go to 1GHz, but it is modified Pentium technology, so expect slightly slower performance than you might from similar regular desktop speeds, that said they have some multimedia hardware.
I think we really need to know what the box has to do, when I think server I tend to think storage, and all the small ones have tons of fans and so are very noisy but fit in 1 or 2U. DELL do cheap quiet servers that run Debian well, but they are huge, mine is so quiet I can barely hear it even when the disks are working overtime.
Either way making regular boxes quiet is a well documented if relatively expensive mod, where as many of the modern PCs start quiet, but will get noiser as the bearings on the fans wear.
My mini-itx box (no fans) is dead quiet ("is it on?" kind of quiet)
apart from the DVD writer, which sounds horrendous in comparison, but
probably isn't that different from normal.
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