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by numpad0 1967 days ago
Server fans are like 12V 1A, Noctua don’t make that kind of fans.

Fan diameter actually corresponds to server thickness. 1U use 4cm, 3U and 4U use 8 or 12cm. Power consumption stays the same, which means monsters like 1U Xeons come with like horizontal 8-unit array of a pair of contra-rotating 4cm 12V/0.5A(12V x 0.5A x 2 in series = 12W per unit) fans.

Noctua don’t make that kind of jet engines.