Scott Savage's Blog » Dell http://www.scottsavage.net CRM software runs my life Fri, 19 Aug 2011 03:51:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Server Upgrade http://www.scottsavage.net/2006/09/server-upgrade/ http://www.scottsavage.net/2006/09/server-upgrade/#comments Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:14:46 +0000 Scott Tonight I performed a tower-to-rack conversion of the Naiman Clarke primary server, a new Dell Poweredge 2900. You may ask why we didn’t just get the rack mountable 2950 version to start with? Well that IS what we ordered, however Dell got a little confused along the way. Anyway they made it up to us with some good discounts and a free rack conversion and rails kit.

Tonight I simply changed the face of the server and moved the control panel so it will be correctly oriented when the server is rack mounted. This was a bit of a process however and required the removal of all drives and bays as well as around 60 Torx screws. You can see these lying around on the floor while I am in the process of reassembling the machine. I also took a few photos of the internals just out of interest. There are some pretty big and noisy fans in there! I thought Woodcrest chips were meant to be power efficient and quiet?

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Dell Poweredge 2900 High Shot Dell Poweredge 2900 CPU Close Up
Dell Poweredge 2900 Peripheral Bay Dell Poweredge 2900 HDD Replacement
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