I purchased a T410 a while back and stopped using it because the fan noise was so bad. The fan would run really loudly and would go up and down for no reason.
The server sits in a home office that is room temperature, around 25C. Plenty of room at the back of the server for air intake and it doesn't sit in a cupboard or anything just on my carpeted floor.
Recently, I purchased an iDrac6 Express and iDrac6 Enterprise cards. This seems to have stabilised the fan speed to around 2500 but its still pretty noisy. Still so noisy I'm again considering not using the T410.
I've updated the FM and BIOS to the latest versions available on the DELL Support site, but that has only served to increase the fan speed to around 2700.
I assume there is no way with the iDrac6 stack to set the fan speed anywhere?
Does anyone happen to have an iDrac6 stack with a T410 that's able to recommend a FM and BIOS combination that's worked for them?
Or is anyone able to suggest any other solutions. Driving me mad. What a waste of money. Still cant believe that DELL ship these things with Jumbo Jet Engines!
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