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What are you doing with heat? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by alekslyse@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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I am starting to wonder why my server system is making SO much heat. I live in Norway, so outside temperature is around freezing, and my house I keep it around 25 degrees inside, except no heating in the server room. It got a roof extraction vent that is constantly sucking out air in that room, and I just had it inspected to be working perfectly fine.

Still its always over 30 degrees in that room, and the hot air is oozing from the server. Its just a consumer based drive and a couple of switches, plus a UPS, and its so warm in there.

Im getting afraid the high temperature can affect the hardware when its 30-35 degrees inside the server rack

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[–] Iregularlogic@alien.top 3 points 1 year ago

By keeping your house at 25 degrees, you're setting the baseline temperature of the house (i.e. it will never be colder than 25 degrees, period).

If you can get some airflow, why not just set your house to like 19 degrees, and use the fans of your unit to equalize the temperature in your unit (19 degrees is the new baseline, it will probably keep the unit a degree or two hotter just by the ambient heat generated by your server).

For what it's worth a server is fine to run in this type of environment. What are the internal temperatures of your system? Is it overheating?