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Cooling a RAID card with a small noctua fan (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by Krafting@lemmy.world to c/homelab@lemmy.ml

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Hi everyone,

I have a DL380 G8 server with a pretty hot raid controller, which crank the fans up in the server;

I would like to add a small 40x10 noctua fan on top of its heatsink but I don't know how can I power the fan in such a server.. I thought about USB to PWM connectors but it doesn't feel right...

There are 10pins connector inside the server, but buying a 10 pin to molex then molex to pwm feels weird too... maybe

Did any of you did something similar ? What are your idea to power the fan ?

Thank you!

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[–] Krafting@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, the first one is a whole IPMI card, it's so overkill ahah

the second one require external power, I've seen this design a lot yeah...

I'll do the USB to pwm route I think, I don't have molex or sata at all either yeah...

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

Wish you the best of luck!