[Info-vax] Office Friendly Kit for rx2620

[MG]

On 16-8-2011 17:18, Keith wrote:
> I have an rx2620 on which I installed the Office Friendly kit.
>
> When I first got the rx2620 and put it in my cubicle, I waited
> to fire it up until after hours on a Friday afternoon, but before
> Monday morning people were already e-mailing me, asking "You don't
> plan to leave that thing there, do you?" I've heard shop vacuums
> that were quieter!

Doesn't your office have a machine room (with KVM switches, perhaps),
where you could have placed it?  Not that you didn't find a good
solution down the road, but still.


> I installed the Office Friendly kit myself. It involves removing
> one of the two power supplies (so you lose redundant power as a
> consequence) and replacing a couple of the fans with new units. No
> special tools were required.

How is it that one can't use two power supplies: no adequate cabling,
are there different power requirements or are these fans larger, thus
requiring to (perhaps partially) occupy the area where one power supply
would be inserted?

Either way, it's good to hear that one can simply install it oneself
(as an end-user).  Do you perhaps have pictures of this kit, or of
your rx2620 with the kit in place?


> I had it in my office for multiple years after that, and it is now
> quite tolerable -- quieter than my DS10.

I've never heard how loud or quiet a DS10 is, or not yet, but that
sounds very good.  How does the "Office Friendly" rx2620 compare to
a unmodified rx2600, for instance?

  - MG