Problem Cant work with loud server.....

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Ok guys, here's my situation.

I have been after a propper server for a while now and just been given a Dell 1600SC tower server.
Its in quite good condition and has got 1 x 2ghz Xeon Processor, 3GB DDR, 4 x 36GB SCSI HDD's and a nice Dell tape drive.

At the minute i have a Dual Core AMD X2 4200 as my test server but wanted a Xeon server so i can expand by adding a 2nd processor and add more drives etc if and when required.

But....... the server is WAYYYYYY to noisy to be kept on 24/7 but i really want to use some of the stuff.

Do you know if the scsi drives and tape drive etc can be transfered to my main pc? Or is the scsi card etc specific to the server??

I though i would open it up and give it a clean to see if that helped with the noise situation but its immaculate inside.

ANy help would be much appreciated!!

 

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Is it the CPU cooler that is generating all the noise ?

If so, you could try replacing it with a quieter one from overclockers or quietpc.

NB

 

Put it in a different room and control it via. RDP?

 

I was given a Dell Power Edge 2600 a couple of years ago and set it up in my garden shed because of the noise.

I got a HP Microserver (HP ProLiant Athlon II Neo N36L MicroServer.. | Ebuyer.com) in the summer which is very quite and can sit on the shelf in my study. I have loaded SBS2008 and run my domain from it. It does not have SCSI so I can't have a tape drive but given the one I had was a Dat72 which would only hold 36GB of data on one tape I now use Backup Exec to backup to an extenal hard drive. It only has RAID 0 or 1 and not 5 but not a great loss. I did upgrade the memory to 8GB and added 2 X 2TB hard drives for storage.

Regards

 

Had a look in the BIOS as i thought there might be a fan controll setting like there is on some HP servers but there was nada, zip, nowt, nothing.

So, decided to unplug both of the hefty case fans and expected a POST error but it booted straight past it without error to my suprise.

The system is a lot quieter now but obviously cooling may now be an issue.

Will install an OS at the weekend or whenever i get time (sit my A+ on Wednesday so revising for that) and will see if i can get a temp control program to see what the temps are and see if it is worth keeping the fans out of there.

Does anyone know if the Dell 1600SC is 32 or 64 bit?

I'm presuming its just 32 bit but that will be enough for what i need it for but may replace the current 2.0ghz processor with 2 x 3.2ghz Xeon processors as thats the max that the board will take.