[Gllug] Quiet/Silent rackmount switch recommendation?

[John Hearns]

On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Nix wrote:

> 
> Er, why would even large switches make any noise? They're
> low-power-consumotion solid-state devices: do the huge ones emit enough
> heat to need fans or something?
Well yes.
Even the 24 port 1U high switches in this cluster have cooling fans.

The 2U Myrinet switch has large cooling fans on the side - so big
we have exhaust holes on the side of the cabinet.


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