[geeks] Dell T105 drive bay fan

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
>Date: 2008/04/24 Thu PM 07:45:20 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Dell T105 drive bay fan

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>>> If you add up the craft parts and my time, it would cost me 3 times  
>>> as much to make it myself.
>>>
>>> But wow... that's an expensive fan.
>>>
>>
>> And the self-made fan/shroud at three-times the cost is what???
>
>...is whatever I manage to cobble together, which will probably not be  
>very pretty or work as well as the Dell part.

I wasn't questioning the composition, I was noting that you started out complaining about the price of the fan shroud "kit" at $38, then said that the alternative would be three times the cost, which by my math makes the $38 fan shroud kit a "bargain", contrary to your initial assertion.

Really, I forgot to add the smiley at the end, to let you know I was tweaking your comment, not questioning the parts list. ;^)

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>I did a quick test with a low speed 80mm fan, no shroud, and just  
>placing it near the drive bay cut the temperature on the lower drive  
>by 10C.
>
>It really doesn't take much moving air to make a good bit of difference.
>
>Without the fan, the lower drive bay has no wind moving by it at all.
>
>Dell should be shipping the fan with SATA and SAS, not just SAS.

Let me know if there is any appreciable increase in fan noise from the added fan - I assume since it is a "smart" fan that it won't run full-bore, like say a "classic" 1U server chassis.

Lionel