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Who is necro?
Anyways, the keys to this system really are the bubble wrap mounting of the hard drives and the power supply.
The bubble wrap came to me in a dream I think, but the resonating vibrations of a case is where lots of the noise comes from. These are usually result of the moving parts, big ones being the hard drive and its seeking. The bubble wrap lining the bottom of the case eliminates this as long as you don't mind that the drives aren't actually mounted to anything.
Also the pico power supply doesn't apply in all circumstances. Efficiency of a power supply doesn't apply until higher in the utilization most times, ie. 300 watt ps is 80% efficient at 80% itilization, less efficient at lower utilization. Therefore, I decided to go for the Pico and see what happens.
My ESXi server uses about 40 watts idle at the wall according to the killawatt. This is a few watts more than a similarly configured dual core Atom that I had running. This displays the efficiency of the core duo and hard drives. Under load, the server uses more than the Atom, but it gets much more work done faster too.

 
No, Necro is short for Necromancer... as in Raising the dead... this thread died almost two and a half years ago in march of 2007. Your contribution to the thread is most likely in vain, this person may have already long built this server, and maybe even a second one when THAT one went obsolete as well.
 
as said, silent pc review.
always use something like a p18x type case. thick panels, dead knock when you tap them unlike many other shiny flashy cases that ring like a bell when tapped. and of course silent components inside as well. you can't skimp on either.

but yes, why 2007 warp😛 lol🙂
 
This was an old post I resurected by mistake. Looks like since the original post, putfile got bought by ebaumsworld is all.
 
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