On Dec 19, 2:27pm, Armin Hartinger wrote:
> I'd like to move my constantly-running Linux server into the garage. One
> less humming noise-maker in the house. Now the question to those
> Arizonians is, if any of you has experience with running PCs at such
> high environment temperatures.
>
> Temperature is the biggest issue. Of course, I'd try to pick components
> which aren't already running hot (so no o/ced CPUs, 10K SCSI drivers or
> similar). Still, the question remains if maybe the whole attempt to run
> a PC with standard office components at outside temperatures isn't
> entirely futile.
>
> Any experiences?
I've never put any of my machines in the garage, but I have a home
office which used to get rather warm. (I now have a separate AC
unit for the office.) Anyway, the temperatures would only get up
into the 90's, but I still experienced more hardware failures than
what I would consider normal. (Several disk drives and a computer
power supply.)
My advice is don't do it. (Your equipment will probably be okay for a
while, but it is likely that something will fail sooner than it
would've if you had kept it cool.)
Having said that, there was a thread on this list a while back about
someone who wanted to run a machine in a fairly hot setting who wanted
to figure out a way to cool just the machine... I don't remember the
outcome of the thread. It seems to me you could just put your server
in a frost-free dorm room refrigerator...
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