Garage Server Set-Up

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dnphamus13

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I'll be returning to San Antonio, Texas soon and I thinking about setting up my servers in the garage vs them taking up space in the house. Since these will be the back-up servers my plan is to mount them up high on one of these Overhead Ceiling Storage. Would there by any environmental issues that i would have to deal with?

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I've got a server in my garage in South Florida and I would have expected drive issues by now, but surprisingly about 1.5 years of being there and on 24/7 hasn't been an issue.
 
. I kept a server in my parents garage in north texas. It shouldn't really be a problem as long as it doesn't get like really hot in there. It never really got any hotter than my bedroom, usually a lil cooler since there are no windows in the garage. It was runnin 24/7 for about two years never had an issue. 2 80mm intakes 2 80mm exhaust. Cleaned the filter once a month.
 
I wouldn't do it on anything you cared about unless it was <80 degrees and you ran a dehumidifier.
 
I Think you can do it just fine, Just have to plan for the worst. I would make sure that you had positive pressure in your case & the air intakes should go through some sort of a fabbed up airbox with an air filter (should be easily dont for less then 50 bucks with some hvac ducting so you can use a general home air filter & something along the lines of dryer duct to get it to your case.
 
I pretty much live in my garage, here in Indiana summer heat reach mid 90s for weeks during the day. My main box lives on a shelf about 1' from the ceiling, defiantly hot, not a problem in 10 years. However, the hardware is upgraded every 2-3 years.
 
I have a DL585 G2 in my garage - its moaning that it is too cold :) It got to -18 or whatever but it kept on going :)
 
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