@randy what rails are you using for your lenovo p620? All the ones Iāve found online are way to expensive
you dont need rails. use these. on sale!
Thanks dude
This seems like the relevant place to ask this question ā
I recently relocated from Austin to NYC, and am setting up my Flame + Resolve system in a Brooklyn apartment. I came from having a cush little server room across the hall, to a 150 sq foot office. I am wondering if there are any handy recommendations for small server racks. Ones that reduce the machine noise significantly.
My set up isnāt as juicy as those posted above ā itās just for a single workstation with an ASUS WRX80, a Mac mini, an APC, and the random external drive here and there. Maybe I need room to grow, who knows. But what I wonder is, should I go for the full soundproof Ucoustic option or the basic cabinet soundproof option? The basic being something like a Tripp lite or SysRacks. Obviously cost differences are huge. Thoughts?
I banned my Nexis to one of these: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/835116-REG/iStarUSA_WQ_990_Ultimate_Quiet_Server_Cabinet.html
Not cheap, and very heavy (ships on crate). But works well. Has itās own set of cooling fans on the back. May need to add some accoustic foam on the inside.
If you splurge, you can get one of these: UCoustic Soundproof Rack Cabinet | Rackmount Solutions. But it will cost more than your Flame system 
I did see one of those UCoustic racks on EBay for half the price, but still. A small fortune.
I suppose a significant reduction is all I need. A little fan noise is soothing, right?
If I remember the cheaper iStar rack reduced the noise by about 20SPL (I measured it). That all depends then on your starting point.
The fans on the back of the Nexis come in at 79SPL which is unbearable to work next, itās still annoying but tolerable now (noise canceling headphones take care of the rest).
But a normal P620 and a spinning disk RAID are much quieter, and taking 20SPL off that, will make it sound nice and even.
You definitely want to think about ventilation though. In NYC apartments in the summer the heat builds up, and anything that isnāt ventilated will suffer.
Little improvements do add up if you donāt want a rack.
I was able to quiet my home office quite a bit by replacing a few internal fansā¦the original fan in my desktop OWC raid was annoying loud, now its a soothing hum.
Also screwing down the drives on each QNAP NAS sled got rid of all the plastic creaks and rattles.
Iām still battling the heat issue thoughā¦
Along those lines, set your NAS/RAID on rubber dampers, so sound doesnāt transmit to the desk/cabinet they sit in.
For an EXR 5K image sequence, mechanical disks, even in RAID 0, are no longer recommended. I donāt use NAS, I use a server directly connected to Flame via 10Gb network.