*** WARNING *** I am a complete newbie at this!

So I just received a new Nutanix rack mounted server from a friend, two nodes and I don’t intend to run Nutanix on it.

I don’t have a rack or means of mounting it so it is just sitting on a table for now, without any soundproofing. Is it possible to use pwm to control the fans? As far as i can tell, the motherboard can control the fan speeds, like at startup.

Could i replace the fans with a noctua fan?

  • cmmmota@alien.topB
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    11 months ago

    Low power, consumer grade hardware. That’s the only thing I can think of.

    I wonder how many homelabbers pay the difference between their used server hardware and new consumer hardware every couple of years due to their electricity bill.