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Rack mounting six packs of MacPro
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Craig, I wonder if mounting the new Mac Pro sideways will cause an airflow problem.
An upright Mac Pro tube gets a cooling boost from convection, with hot air naturally rising up and out of the thermal core like a chimney. A sideways-mounted Mac Pro tube might throw too much heat at the top-most component, plus it would lose convection, putting the entire burden of venting the hot air on the fan.
Walter Soyka
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Of course, by stacking vertically, you are venting hot air to the shelf above. Not ideal either. My guess is that Apple does not intend for these to be rack-mounted at all.
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And more on redesign:
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[Oliver Peters] “Of course, by stacking vertically, you are venting hot air to the shelf above. Not ideal either.”
Build hats and boots, closed on three sides and open (with forced ventilation) on the fourth, rotated 180 degrees from each other? You could force it to draw cold air from the front of the rack and exhaust hot air out the back. Of course this is naive speculation and I have no idea how much air you’d have to move or what else you’d have to do make this work reliably.
[Oliver Peters] “My guess is that Apple does not intend for these to be rack-mounted at all.”
We are talking about the company that kept an otherwise perfectly rackable design un-rackable with those goofy ears for a decade.
Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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I just completely LMAO when I saw that picture!
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And here’s the new distribution system. “Ships in 24 Hours” is SO last decade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgTk5-JX8qI
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[Walter Soyka] “We are talking about the company that kept an otherwise perfectly rackable design un-rackable with those goofy ears for a decade.”
Of course, there’s nothing magical about the cylindrical design other than size reduction and the cool factor. There’s nothing that says Apple won’t release a server variation of the same product, only in a rack-friendly configuration. Thus putting the Mini-Server out to pasture.
– Oliver
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Isn’t this a bit excessive? I’ve got a bedside table that could carry 4 of these things and if they’re as quiet as billed I wouldn’t even know they’re there.. or if you really need an enclosure turn one of these sideways and stuff in 20+..
https://www.minkels.com/getfile.php?id=400
(Need to move the perf to the other 2 sides natch..)
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[Dan Stewart] “or if you really need an enclosure turn one of these sideways”
What makes you think the fan system will operate properly turned sideways? Either conclusion is an assumption at this stage.
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I think Walter’s right about a side mount killing the effectiveness of convection cooling, but I’ll just bet that someone is going to come up with some sort of quick, flexible clamping system which could hold the chassis tightly, without marring the finish or blocking any ports. They could also be mounted in an array where the “shelves” are offset, front to back, bottom to top, with maybe a couple of inches allowed for a wire race, or carefully bundled wires, to go through to the back, or use the bottom of each shelf for attaching the wire bundles. If they built this right, you could make a system which would fit a standard rack mount system, and keep everything accessible. And it would look like a wine rack, more or less, turned 90 degrees, but with each tier offset. And it would look pretty cool as well. This would also give the option for a fan array above the shelving setup, because I have a feeling that these pups are going to generate a lot of heat, with the dual GFX card.
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