So here's my random lounge thought for the day... any ideas on how to capture/harness the heat my unRAID desktop server generates and re-purpose it for good instead of evil? Right now, my office is comfortable, but in the summer it gets uncomfortably hot when the server is powered on (and its usually on 24x7). I understand large data centers build their facilities to make airflow, cooling and heat exchange efficient. Unfortunately, I don't have that luxury. If it hasn't been invented, someone needs to develop a "Heat Panel" (the sister to the Solar Panel).

This was originally why I put my servers in the basement - cooler down there until summer.  That was back before I used unRAID and had Pentium 4s.  Even in the basement I had to turn those off during the day in the summer time.  In the Winter, Spring & Fall I left them on.  It cut down on the amount of time my furnace was running.

Put your server into the same area as your water heater, and replace your water heater (if necessary) with the heat-pump variety- a symbiotic relationship.

Install threadripper into your server and put into your fireplace. Set up a exhaust fan to blow into the room. Crank up the Plex transcodes. Now you can toast marshmallows.

Mine's in the basement, it helps keep the pipes from freezing.

I've turned off the radiator in my small home office, still the warmest room in the house.

Come summer it's going to be really Betty Swollocks though unless I open the windows.

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7 minutes ago, CHBMB said:

Betty Swollocks

Had to look that one up lol

 

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/submission/1817/betty+swollocks+

I think you mean Seebeck

32 minutes ago, Squid said:

Had to look that one up lol

 

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/submission/1817/betty+swollocks+

 

Bahahaha

 

My Kids decided they had to have a gaming rig and now my office aka my Server storage area is a sweat lodge.

My office used to be noisy and hot. With my Windows workstation now a VM from my server (which lives in the basement with just a couple of wires strung up to my office), it is cool and quiet. Ahhh ...

8 hours ago, SSD said:

Install threadripper into your server and put into your fireplace. Set up a exhaust fan to blow into the room. Crank up the Plex transcodes. Now you can toast marshmallows.

 

Brilliant!

7 hours ago, CHBMB said:

I've turned off the radiator in my small home office, still the warmest room in the house.

Come summer it's going to be really Betty Swollocks though unless I open the windows.

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If I could make it silent, I'd put it in the Mrs. office.. she's always cold.

7 hours ago, Squid said:

Had to look that one up lol

 

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/submission/1817/betty+swollocks+

Ditto! LOL

6 hours ago, SSD said:

My office used to be noisy and hot. With my Windows workstation now a VM from my server (which lives in the basement with just a couple of wires strung up to my office), it is cool and quiet. Ahhh ...

We don't have a basement... next house! Sadly, things are only going to get worse if I add a fully loaded Norcoo 4224 as the production unit and use the current one as a backup server. Yikes!!

Edited January 19, 20188 yr by Joseph

Vent server exhaust either into your a/c return vent or attic during the summer. During the winter shut off the air to the room and let it heat it.

 

problem solved. 

 

(Mine live in the basement currently in a wood and plastic clean room but will eventually get built into a closet or more custom permanent build in the house.)

On 1/18/2018 at 9:24 AM, SSD said:

Install threadripper into your server and put into your fireplace. Set up a exhaust fan to blow into the room. Crank up the Plex transcodes. Now you can toast marshmallows.

 

I'll admit to BTC mining, and heavy handbrake usage, during the Winter seasons to supplement my heating when I was an apartment dweller.