[Tinsman]

My god! This sucker is loud! and big! I thought I might be able to stash this somewhere in my 4-person cubicle. But after plugging it in, there's no way I'll be able to keep this anywhere near our area. One, because the fans on this thing sound like a huge air conditioner running, and two, I thought I could maybe mount this somewhere unassuming, but it's huge!

I'm going to have to route the CAT 5 across the ceiling to a store room around 35 feet away. I don't want to buy a special rack though. I have some decent shelving in there and it's lockable, so that's good.

Has anyone had experience with installing a single Xserve or have some suggestions with any of this?

By the way, this is one part of a complete overhaul for our marketing department's Mac network. Three G4's, Xerox printer, Xserve, gigabit ethernet.

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=134276

[006]

Your right about the noise.. I found that as long as it is propperly supported; with good ventilation space: You can put it anywhere you like. It won't complain as long as it has a nice room temerature and good airways.

[Cipher13]

Yep - make sure it has room to breathe, most importantly.

Then, the right air temp.

I just stashed it under the desk in our office. The noise doesn't bother me in the least.

[l008com]

Maybe you can find some kind of rack holding desktop case. Something you can just put the xserve in and then plop it on a shelf anywhere? You could always make a wooden type of case. There goes the Apples' good looks though :-)