Don't have A/C, but I have a hard enough time as it is covering the electric bill for the servers in the basement. (One of the reasons I'm trying to reduce the number of machines or at least make them more energy-efficient; for example, I'm thinking about replacing the current DNS servers with laptops. Relatively low power consumption, and a built-in batter backup; just a little worried about the life expectancy of the hard drives versus a decent SCSI drive.)
When it gets warm during the summer, I have a couple of portable swamp coolers under the desk on the other side of the room that I fire up. Cheaper than A/C and Colorado's dry enough that it works pretty well. The new setup makes a huge difference over what I had up until two years ago: then I was running two dual-athlon machines with three big (and darned warm, too) Sun monitors and four Sun 711 12-drive SCSI enclosures. The noise level didn't help with editing, even though I have the computers at a distance and would wear headphones. Noise was a big part of why I figured I'd give water cooling a try. Still could be quieter, though. Maybe I'll get it really quiet with the next version.
Wish I could find more pictures of my setups from way back when, like back when I had a system running off a CDC Hawk drive (two 14" disks, one fixed, one in a removeable cartridge, 5 Megabytes each). That might have been the noisiest, but my desk was at the end of 120 feet of RS-232 cables (the computer itself was in the bedroom clothes closet). Had three dumb terminals on my desk back then; I haven't had to get by with just one display for decades.
Close--they started out as Antec cases before Koolance got their hands on them and turned them into water-cooling systems. I can thank the "Hot Deals" forum for those--$100 apiece, complete with water blocks, Wish I'd bought more at the time.
Trygve you have one very nice setup man, jeez the power bill must be a killer.
My desk
Network closet
Network closet isn't in my room, it's in another part of the house. Has the cable modem, router and 24 port switch along with the PDC in it. Might or might not add machines to the network closet although I will be adding a WAP in a month or so.
My desk
Network closet
Network closet isn't in my room, it's in another part of the house. Has the cable modem, router and 24 port switch along with the PDC in it. Might or might not add machines to the network closet although I will be adding a WAP in a month or so.
BlueWeasel
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I hope no one spills water on that mobo!
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A little bit (or a lot) of "this-'n-that"--acting, stunts and FX, TV commercials, international film representation, and whatever else needs to be done on any given day. Right this minute, I need to get back to replacing one of the mailservers which has mysteriously crashed twice in the last two weeks. No idea what's wrong, but I'm heading off to the American Film Market in two weeks and that's a week-and-a-half-long stint where I can't have the mailserver going down on me like this. What I'd really planned to be doing this weekend was to put together a full-page ad for Independent Film Quarterly (got the first page reserved again) and doing the soundtrack for at least one movie trailer, but I seem to have ended up working on server issues and doing plumbing repair. Oh, and putting together a small video editing computer for Christopher Atkins. Still need to author and produce the DVDs to give out to the buyers at the market and finish the displays in time to get them shipped out to the market.
So it's a somewhat random mix that changes every day and (usually unfortunately) doesn't often end up going quite as planned. Takes a lot of equipment--gotta be able to use and produce the different formats that TV stations, international film distributors, and video/DVD/CD replicators want.
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