[CUBE] Noise?

[Jim Clark]

No flame.

James, you may already have a high tone loss.  I suffered hearing loss 
in the Navy operating a  125K HP steam turbine and 2 500 KW steam 
driven generators. A lot of  high pitched noise. I also work in a 
server room with apx. the same amount of equipment you support. I have 
measured the noise level and it is apx. 50 DB. I think around 85 DB the 
noise level is considered a hazard. You and I work in production 
settings where noise comes with servers with multiple fans. Our routers 
and vent fans add even more noise.

Many Cube users are artist and noise is a distraction to them. They may 
have only one machine running in a study or a office setting.

BTW I purchased a NeXT Cube because I liked my cube so much. I may have 
a few questions for you.


On Saturday, Dec 7, 2002, at 10:57 US/Central, James Rice wrote:

> This may be off topic and I'm not trying to start a flame war, but I am
> curious.  What is this obsession with no noise?  Why is fan and drive
> noise a problem?  I'm just curious.  I work in a server room with 25-35
> very loud servers.  My home office has almost 50 boxes, at least 10-12
> up and running at all times.  My home Wintel PC, a dual 2ghz K7 MP has 
> a
> total of 11 fans. It howls like a Lear winding up for take off. My
> favorite Mac systems aren't Mac's  but are my three Daystar Genesis MP
> clones  with 4-5 fans each.  Nothing quiet about them.  I worked in my
> previous life at high noise industrial sites.  After working for 6 
> weeks
> next to a pair of tandem 4000hp electrical motors the size of full size
> 15 passenger van's, a cooling fan is almost inaudible.  Just curious as
> I have actually always liked the hum of fans and drives.  Reminds me of
> the mechanical/tech nature of my computers.
>
> I don't own a cube yet, but I'm looking for the right one at the right
> price.  I do own what I consider to be the G4 cube's ancestors, two 
> NeXT
> Dimension cubes.
>
> James (no G4 cube yet, but looking)
> -- 
> http://webpages.charter.net/jrice54/classiccomp2.html
>
>
>
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