Yes, 72,000 BTU is more than adequate to remove both the heat and the humidity from the garage. Even when it is 110 degrees outside!
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I don’t recall your overall power consumption being mentioned, only those from a couple of PDU’s.
Do you have an overall figure ? Including the AC ?
He didn’t say about the power cables running to the Hoover Dam Hydro Plant using 58jigawatts and the flux capacitor connection
His house is there on the left…
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I used some cheap rack from aliexpress not recommended since to add or remove a drive I need to swatch off the farm. Try to use a rack like this one instead 
: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003195787412.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.448e5e99khZ2tO&algo_pvid=3b170d6a-506f-4bb4-802d-50ba469433b8&algo_exp_id=3b170d6a-506f-4bb4-802d-50ba469433b8-0&pdp_ext_f={"sku_id"%3A"12000024607716289"}&pdp_npi=2%40dis!CHF!17.76!15.27!!!!!%40210318d116606562572657766e6d0d!12000024607716289!sea&curPageLogUid=h2TBDqBXBBY2
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It’s easy to measure how much power I’m using on my Chia farm due to my PDUs, but it’s not so easy to calculate how much I am spending on the cooling in that room. My entire house is consuming $2,200 worth of electricity as a whole each month.
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Holy Shit 
are you sure your AC is not cooling the earth instead of your house?
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I might of missed u saying it. But the only only 1 thing I would change. Is running everything over fiber.
Everything.
Would be expensive upgrade and i wonder heavily the impact on such a big farm.
10gbit coppers not bad or anything. I just like the idea using light for farm communication…
Farms still a 10/10 in my book.
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I still think you are crazy for using AC to cool your farm! It’s such a big expense. But it’s the right thing to do in your climate and for the drives. I wonder if targeted AC on the drives (not on the room) would give similar results and slash the costs?
I just moved everything into a small form factor case - low power consumption and small footprint were a must to weather the bear market and keep clutter down for the long haul. Also I purchased equipment I could use in other builds (hence 8TB drives instead of something larger) should I fold up shop at some point (long outlook but hobbies change, been in and out of coins since 2017). It’s not carved in stone though, there are still open USB ports, I can fit one or two more externals on top if the plotting bug bites.
I hesitate to call it a farm - probably closer to a garden or flower bed. I’m all in on OG plots; if I’m going to wreck my taxes, I want it to count lol. Plus I have a bit of the gambling bug, it’s a lottery play. Thanks for letting me hang with you guys, it’s a wealth of info in here.
The shopping list:
Intel Atom D525 mobo - 4 cores, 1.8 GHz
8GB Samsung DDR3 1333 SODIMM
500GB Samsung EVO for OS
500GB Samsung T7 for temp plotting
8TB Seagate Ironwolf
8TB WD Mybook external
TP-Link AC1200 PCIe card
Case is some Shuttle knockoff from Newegg with 250 watt PSU
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How loud is the 4246 comparable to a Supermicro 846 at idle if you’ve ever heard one of those?
The 2246 was at least 2x louder than the 4246 at startup. It was actually kind of shocking! Lol
They are very quiet once they settle down. My server is the only thing making any sort of racket as it is plotting.
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Yeah. I know that little 2U can scream! I keep my farm in a spare downstairs bedroom and I’ve taken a lot of care to keep it relatively quiet. Ain’t trying to hear servers over the living room TV! Lol. I want to pick up one of these 4U NetApp shelves, but worried about the noise. Currently I have a 2U Supermicro, a 3U Supermicro, and a 4U Supermicro.
I don’t have a whole lot of experience with enterprise hardware but the 4246 is surprisingly quiet compared to what I thought it would sound like based on YouTube videos I had seen.
I’m running proxmox and I’m plotting on Ubuntu with 64 of the 88 cores I have. I love having multiple “computers” all in one box. It’s fun!
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Sitting on around 430 TB at the moment.
Farm is at the laundry room next to the washing machine.
Super happy with the healthyness of my Farm
Almost no complications at all, temps of the harddrives all between 30-40 Deg. Celsius even in this hot summer.
Greetings
- XCHeisenberg
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Looks good, is that your boot-disk on the left upper corner 
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I have a couple of those Fantec boxes. They have a fan on the back pulling air through. Never considered adding one on the front pushing air in… Is mounting them tricky, what did you use?
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Looks like tape to me…
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Dont know exactly know what you mean.
The Black Thing is tape Holding the fans in position.
The silver thing is my Mini-PC where my Full Node runs
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I had problems in summer.
Temps would go above 45 Deg. Celsius on some drives.
Just added a bunch of USB Fans, i attached them with Tape
Temps are now between 30-40 Deg. Celsius on all drives
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