Comments on: How to Make a Dell PowerEdge Quieter

By: Ajay

Ajay — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:41:46 +0000

Hi,

I am planing to follow the steps you have outlined here for my Dell PowerEdge 2950.
One of the images in the post is missing, I can see the place holder but the image is missing.
Can you fix this please, so that I can follow the instructions.

Thanks,

Ajay.

By: Brent Ozar

Brent Ozar — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:28:31 +0000

Paul – sorry, I can’t give specifics about a server and fan I’ve never seen. Your best bet would be to contact IBM or a motherboard forum, or a site like superuser.com.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:14:41 +0000

Hello, if you are still around i have a question about this. I have an ibm eserver 366 i plan to do this with. Each fan has a six pin connector but two of the pins are just for a fan-fail LED so that leaves four like you have, the problem is that the Fan itself only has three wires coming from it and the third and fourth pins on the connector are just bridged with a wire. Do you know of a three pin PWM fan or should i just but four pins and not use one pin or connect it to the bridged pin??

It has two fan sizes 90mm and 80mm

thanks for reading.

By: John Harris

John Harris — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:21:26 +0000

Brent & Arnuschky thank you both. I finished switching my Dell PE2900 over the those Nexus 92MM PWM Fans today. I purchased a 2nd used set of Dell Fans for the orange holder keeping my Fans intact. With the 2900 and Nexus Fans it matched Arnuschky’s post on wiring for the Everflow Fan. My Dell has dual CPUs & Redundant PowerSupplies with 8 SAS 15K drives. We use it for Testing only, I wouldn’t do this othewise. These Nexus Fans are running between 1500RPM and 1650RPM. I guess I’m making enough heat to keep the RPM’s above the threshold, no errors or warnings so far. It’s much quieter sitting behind me although I hear the drives and maybe a fan in the Power Supply? Great info guys, thanks again.