Hi, I’m building a homelab watercooled unix server. I don’t want to buy expensive overpriced pre-mixes from ekwb or aquatuning. What cooling solution do datacenters use for water cooling?

What is the chemical solution? Does anyone know?

  • 51dusty@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    10-15 degrees is all you need to keep a “cold aisle” at 85degf, most places, on the worst day.

    IIRC Amazon figured out that individual components could actually run hotter within an acceptable replacement window.

    higher equipment replacement is more than offset by the fact they don’t have to do refrigerant based cooling which makes daily operation ridiculously cheap… no pumps or complicated mechanical devices to produce cooling… no people with special skills to maintain them, etc.

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      1 day ago

      That 10-15 (in my case) relies on no extra heat. When I have game nights it gets pretty toasty inside with 5 or so extra bodies in the shop.

      My last experience with a server room was in 2002 or 2003, and the rooms were kept in the mid to low 60s.

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        no doubt.

        I remember when you’d put a jacket on before you went in the halls… but now everyone wears shorts.