I have a homelab in a walk-in closet that I want to cool down.
I'm thinking 3 fans:
>exhaust out of roof when hot out
>exhaust out of door(into office) when cold out
>intake from office
Thoughts?
I may just say frick it and have a mini-split installed.
>I have a homelab
meth is bad for you, anon
not for my wallet, tho 😉
Where is the shed?
does a garage count?
seems like putting a hole in the outer wall would be cheaper.
Mounting your pc on the wall adjacent to the office is nice for noise-cancelling in the office.
>seems like putting a hole in the outer wall would be cheaper.
Probably, but would it be worth it? Won't a ceiling exhaust fan be more effective?
>Won't a ceiling exhaust fan be more effective?
You are thinking of venting into your attic/roof space? If so, how hot does it get up there in the summer?
What even is the point of a "home lab"? Trying to act like some eceleb with a company? Oh man I NEED to turn my closet into a server room with fancy shit. Put it somewhere that's already cooled and ventilated? But then I might hear some noooooooise!
>homelab
i had to google that it's called a home server you fricking tech homosexual and you should vent it into the roof or outside
also this
I didn't ask for your techlet opinions. Answer the question or frick off.
>What even is the point of a "home lab"?
NTA, but some people use computers for work. We need more then a laptop or a gayman desktop can provide. I have a server that runs a bunch of VMs so I can test my software on multiple versions of multiple distributions, and a NAS, a windows dev computer and my gayman PC all in a closet, along with switches, router and modem. My desktop computer is in my office and is the least powerful of the bunch, as it's main job is connecting to the other computers and needs to do so quietly.
don't bother feeding the trolls. They'll just retort with "well you dont NEED that." I have multiple clusters in there(compute and SANs) all running on an InfiniBand 100Gbps network. They probably don't even know what RAID is.
Out of the roof.
See
is this some PrepHole meme?
I wouldn't say it's "carefully controlled" but I'm not going to increase the humidity on purpose. If just increasing the airflow doesn't help, I'm putting a mini-split in there.
(or maybe I'll get off my ass and migrate to my garage, it's about fricking time)
>They'll just retort with "well you dont NEED that."
i never said that, i said calling it a homelab is gay. they are called home servers regardless or what hardware you use.
So you feel you need something stronger than a well-built desktop PC to run virtual machines at home, but can't stop there and NEED a fancy name that makes it sound like more than it really is?
Buddy, you aren't a former inventory manager and salesman from a now-defunct computer part shop building a media empire. Enterprise-grade shit as if you're running a whole corporation is not necessary.
Just shove a dedicated AC unit in the room. That should be enough.
You got it wrong bud, a homelab is less then a dedicated server. It's your space laptop with a busted screen that you connected 8 external hdds to.
Don't be mad at the term, I think it's way more pretentious to call an intel nuc running docker a """server"""
>way more """""""pretentious"""""""
top that littel boy
bro got mad over terminology
What's the current AC situation? Central air, window AC in the office, or window AC for the whole place?
Central AC
where's the SHED?
whirlybird on the roof, when it is cold increase humidity when it is hot decrease humidity, changing the thermal mass of the heat transfer medium dramatically reduces transfer ability.
candle reduce squirt bottle/mister increase
inb4 humidity also changes wetness/penetration
inb4 its a carefully controlled lab
Yep a few SHT-30s, a micro-controller and a few noctuas could do this easily.
I have a homelab in the same closet where I keep my training swords. What is the best way to control the temperature and humidity without spending a lot of money.
no that's where my guest room is(i dont have guests so im not worried about the noise haha)