Homer-S 18 Posted November 15, 2014 Share Posted November 15, 2014 Hello all,inspired by the youtube videos of Joe_Miner and the pinned threat of the G8 drive bracket I decided to use my engineering skills to do something similar.I wanted to show you some pictures of my work. It was not really difficulty because all brain work was done before by schoondoggy.I have mounted a low speed 4cm fan which should pull warm air from the HDDs but it seems to be to less airflow.One drive is running on 56°C and the other one on 53°C. I guess it is a little high. What do you think?Update: After writing this post they reduced by 4°C each. With increased cooling setting in BIOS they are running on ~47°Cdrives mounted and bracket fixation tabsfront view, do not take too much attention on gap parallelism would not fly for a German carplate from the back; not so nice but workingdrives with plugsthis single screw is for mounting the fanready to install; view from the backclose up with running fanfinal statusThanks for reading, I hope you enjoyed it. 2 Link to post Share on other sites
schoondoggy 895 Posted November 15, 2014 Share Posted November 15, 2014 Nicely done! The fan mount is a nice touch. Link to post Share on other sites
Joe_Miner 254 Posted November 15, 2014 Share Posted November 15, 2014 Excellent +1 Link to post Share on other sites
Homer-S 18 Posted November 22, 2014 Author Share Posted November 22, 2014 One question from my side. All temperatures are looking good except the additional HDDs. One is at ~52° and the other 48°C. I installed additional to the setup above an additional fan without any additional effect. If I am turning in BIOS the fan level to advanced it looks mcuh better but the noise is a little too loud. Difference between these BIOS settings is about 20% of Fan speed. My question is now. Can I go somewhere in between? 19% is too slow and I have the 52°C and 40% is loud and the HDD is running at 43°C. I would like to bring it to 30% but I have no idea if it is possible and how? One more thought, if my additional Raid controller would be smart array compatible would it be contribute to the fan speed control unit and automatically increase fan speed? Thanks Link to post Share on other sites
schoondoggy 895 Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 If you use a HP P222 RAID it will help with fan speed. The P222 is supported by iLo and iLo controls the internal fan. As for the temp of the drives on the bracket, you need to increase air flow. Blower fans are the best way to move air. Check some of JM's videos on cooling. Link to post Share on other sites
Homer-S 18 Posted November 22, 2014 Author Share Posted November 22, 2014 is it the same for P212 and P410? Link to post Share on other sites
schoondoggy 895 Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 No, unfortunately the P222 is the only controller recognized by iLo on the microsever gen8. Link to post Share on other sites
Joe_Miner 254 Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 (edited) you can see details of the blower fan in: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLn2DhE-6J02RpMF4bJDh-m-y8GlDi1WOO as well as: http://homeservershow.com/schoondoggy-gen8-drive-mount-hp-proliant-gen8-microserver-first-look.html http://homeservershow.com/sgdm-sdm-pre-production-review-hp-proliant-gen8-microserver.html Edited November 22, 2014 by Joe_Miner 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Homer-S 18 Posted November 22, 2014 Author Share Posted November 22, 2014 I found on in an online shop but the db noise value is quite high ... Do you know silent ones? Max 20db? Link to post Share on other sites
Homer-S 18 Posted June 6, 2015 Author Share Posted June 6, 2015 Hello again, after a drive break down I decided to improve my setup a little. I bought an external Icy Dock case and added there two 1TB Seagates to do additional drive backups. I think it looks quite good with this additional modding. I could now go up to 12 drives - 4 original installed in Gen8 - 2 on self made bracket - 1 USB3 drive on top - DVD in ODD - 4 in ecternal Icy Dock with a new raid controller. My LSI has only 4i ports. Since my Server is banned into lumber-room fans can run on advanced settings and I had never issues with to high drive temperature. Here some pictures: 2 Link to post Share on other sites
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