I notice the style of most horizontal rack mountable server cases as being long front to back and short in height so many can't use larger fans. Looks like a terrible way to cool components. As they're in a separate room nobody cares how loud they are so they can run their fans higher than most consumer users could stand so that helps. I was wondering how well they are able to cool those case styles though. Many are using dual CPU's with rather small CPU heatsinks in a very long case. So that air is just getting hotter and hotter as it travels from one end to another. Doesn't logic direct us to exhaust hot air as quickly as possible? If they simply re-oriented the case so the air moves sideways (yes I realize it would be a headache to rack mount) you'd think it would be way easier to exhaust the heated air resulting in much lower temps. Attempting to cool a component with heated interior air doesn't sound very smart.
So I'm wondering even with high fan speeds, what temps are they comfortable with? And do higher temps result in shorter life of the components or are they engineered to be OK with those higher temps?
So I'm wondering even with high fan speeds, what temps are they comfortable with? And do higher temps result in shorter life of the components or are they engineered to be OK with those higher temps?