Route the heat exchanger output to a fat air to water intercooler and pump the heated water to house heating radiators in your house to heat your house in the winter for less power or gas usage. You can thank the LTT video for the idea, but don't buy old junk clogged radiators they did lol.

I wore the hat backward just for you too 🤜🤛

@@CraftComputing lol! Well, at least you didn't decide to shave your head instead!

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Should have installed freon pipes to a condenser outside

Exactly! "Why did you need air conditioning?" Because I freaking wanted it, and now I have one of the coolest racks around!

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@@CraftComputing Even cooler than Pamela Anderson's back in the 80's/90's? That was a pretty cool rack!!

I said "one of". There are of course some exceptions.

@@CraftComputing maxim 37. There is no 'overkill.' There is only 'open fire' and 'I need to reload.' engineering is no different than the mercenary work that originated that maxim

95 f =~31 c 75 f = ~21c

I have the HDD temps in Celsius ;-)

No, lets keep this un-scientific and botched! Freedom-Units FTW

Thank you! It was a fun project with some really great results. And thanks for the tips 🙂

I live in a fl. This year we been hitting 100s and mostly 85 to 98 weekly

No, just haven't cut it and soldered it through the rack grate yet.

@@CraftComputing Needs To be rgb

@@CraftComputing I want to scratch my eyes out, it’s so annoying, hide it.

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95F = 31C 77F = 21C :-)

Use google :D

Me Too

95F = 31C 77F = 21C :-)

@@CraftComputing Yeah, I did the conversion while watching, but pausing the video breaks my pure Jeff immersion :D Peace man and keep up the good work, really like your channel.

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Built in evaporator, blows out moisture with the exhaust.

I think I saw some once. Can't find it. But did find these glow in dark ones on monoprice. Must us black ligh to get good effects. www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=34695&gclid=EAIaIQobChMImOHX5dnS6wIViIbACh0ysA1fEAQYAyABEgLSSfD_BwE

Well you said it. It will happen or make it happen your self! Anything is doable if you want it enough.

He's a great dude too!

Uhh no! You can't heart my comment until you switch to consistently either Farenheit or ideally Celsius. My brain cannot handle this. lol

It's x1.8 with a 32 offset! Do it in your head 😜

I already measured, and I can fit another rack next to it 😏

It's possible it uses the hot exhaust to evaporate and get rid of the water

They wear faster, much more sensitive than CPUs / GPUs which can run at 100c.

No they don't. That's pure spun sugar BS. Look at the max operating temp section of any drive datasheet and you can see no drive has such a ridiculously low max operating temp. The lowest I've seen are Ironwolf Pros at 60C. The chassis he's housing his drives is ass or it has serious airflow issues causing the drives to normally run near max operating temp such that his ambient would push them over. Or there's some severe misconception/bad lore in place.

@@heavy1metal There's at least one Backblaze article indicating no material correlation between hd temps (as long as w/in operating range) and failure rates.

Operating temp is the temp the drive reaches while running. Not the ambient air temp around the server. And as noted in this video, my drives were running upward of 55C, which puts them on the edge of their operating temp... Which is exactly why I said drives start failing at 100F ambient, because they can no longer cool themselves below 60C.

@@CraftComputing At the time-ref @heavy1metal cited, your exact wording didn't reference drive temps. Rebuttles wrt incorrectness of commenting before having watched the entire video are certainly fair. This was the reason for my 2nd to last sentence. And again, at 54C, the airflow of the drive enclosure is no bueno or maybe you're running drives 'hotter' (10K/15K) than the enclosure was designed to properly cool? While ambient air isn't, at least immediately, drive operating temperature it does influence it (as a floor of sorts) and, at least after the soak time of the drive (radiation of attached mounting/etc) reaches the ambient you'd have the idle/active heat generation on top of that (35C->54C || 19C > dT/amb). Per my other comment referencing my own data, only under a specific child-engineered 'oopsie', did I ever see drive temps near/exceed that. My garage is uncooled, has a metal roof, and is not insulated. I'm north of the Seattle area so our average outside temps don't often break much into the 90s. Regardless, you have the thing and the issue is resolved. Since you went through the effort of actual mods to your home, I'm guessing you don't have to send it back. To that end it's clearly the most cost-effective solution in your case. Depending on how often you use the garage (open the big door for cars or whatnot) and how well insulated it is, or what it would cost to make it reasonably well insulated, if the trip lite solution at ~$1k (unit + their ducting kit) is cheaper than a few portable room AC units (14K BTU claim to support 350 ft^2); typically in the < $400 range/unit. Again, frequency of opening the big door(s)/endemic insulation level(cost to make viable) and ability of such units to recover from a door openings would be interesting data points. The pros would be that you wouldn't have to stand in front of the rack fanning the door to get some reprieve and w/the entire garage being at a more reasonable ambient, you could add more racks w/out having to get another trip lite unit.

Not really.

The drives have cooled down already. The smaler the delta is between the part you are cooling, and the ambient air, the harder it is to transter heat, and the less efficient your fans become. You could blast the fans at full speed and maybe shave a couple of degreees off the drives, but it wouldn't be worth it.

I had an intro for this video of 'Chet Manly', but I hated the take.

When the AC is running, it draws ~760W... Take that information and do with it what you will 😂

@@bonerjams2k3 probably about $1000 if you install it yourself.

Mine failed after just over year.

The garage has no insulation at all. It was already matching outside air temp on hot days, and bottoming into the 40s on cold winter days (staying well above freezing because it is 4ft below ground level on three sides). The door leading to the house is well sealed, while the large garage door is not. I've got no concern at all about air leaking in from outside, as the air temp isn't going to change at all.