I got a few replies from the contacts I've made with companies that sell sound absorbing materials. One suggested a wooden sheet (approx. 20 mm) combined with a sound absorbing material (facing the rack) would be a good solution. Other said that the best way would be to build a box and use absorbing...

DanW wrote:you could jsut utilize what you have already and use your house walls

if you can put the server in another room.

I agree this would be the best option but for now I have to keep it in the same room where I work.

I'm finishing up a file server and while I tried to select the most quiet possible components there is still some "noise" coming from the hard drives spinning (5 WD 500 Gb RE2). For now I will have the file server on the same room where I spend most of the day working so I'm looking for ways to mini...

I've just read the picoPSU article since I have a mini-ITX board on the way and I was looking for power sources. Anyway, what catched my attention was the low power consuption of the AMD A64 3000+ venice on the DFI RS482 motherboard. I've just assembled a system with a Asus N4L-VM motherboard and a ...