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So after returning home from vacation, the weather was unseasonably warm and humid here. I decided to check on the temps inside the server and things weren't pretty. The hard drive temps were pushing towards 50C. If it was this bad now, I'm sure when summer actually arrived it would be the death of my hard drives.
So I finally bit the bullet and replaced the nasty old beige case that I'd been nursing across a decade and 4 or so motherboards. The old case has a place for a case fan on both the front and back panels, but the front case plastic doesn't actually have any air intakes for the front panel case fan. *face palm* I'd actually drilled a few holes in the case, but knew that was at best a band-aid. To replace it I bought a relatively cheap Cooler Master Elite-342 case. It has an open front grille in front of a 12cm fan that blows directly over the hard drives. It also provided me an opportunity to blow a whole bunch of dust out of the CPU cooler.
The system is in place. It's not back to 100% yet as the motherboard battery might have died and the CMOS settings for the CPU were lost in the transfer. Also some daemon seems to have seg faulted on boot, so I'll have to go figure out whether it was critical or not. So expect some turbulence in the next few days as the new home for the server gets live testing.
