Thursday, May 27th 2021
Alphacool Introduces ES ServerRacks Water Cooling Solutions
Alphacool today introduces three different server racks in 1U, 2U and 4U formats. Alphacool is the first manufacturer to offer server racks that are directly prepared for water cooling components. Previous solutions consisted of expensive and complicated complete solutions from individual manufacturers with external cooling or you could buy corresponding water cooling sets for which you had to subsequently adapt cases.
Alphacool takes a different approach. The enclosures offer a largely classic interior design. However, special and versatile mounting options for reservoirs, pumps and radiators have been taken into account. A special carrier, which is included with every case, offers the possibility of accommodating radiators directly in the case. Further mounting options for the special and optionally available ES Distroplates allow neat hosing in the case. In this way, other components can also be easily integrated with the Alphacool ES quick connectors.
Alphacool offers water cooling sets for all case sizes to match the cases. These are customized for the individual customer and delivered pre-filled. Alphacool also offers Enterprise fans with PWM control in the sizes 40, 80 and 120 mm.
The Alphacool ES water cooling sets are designed for single and dual socket systems and can dissipate heat from 490 to 2400 W depending on the case. All sets are individually designed and can also be expanded with additional coolers for graphics cards or other components.
Alphacool takes a different approach. The enclosures offer a largely classic interior design. However, special and versatile mounting options for reservoirs, pumps and radiators have been taken into account. A special carrier, which is included with every case, offers the possibility of accommodating radiators directly in the case. Further mounting options for the special and optionally available ES Distroplates allow neat hosing in the case. In this way, other components can also be easily integrated with the Alphacool ES quick connectors.
The Alphacool ES water cooling sets are designed for single and dual socket systems and can dissipate heat from 490 to 2400 W depending on the case. All sets are individually designed and can also be expanded with additional coolers for graphics cards or other components.
17 Comments on Alphacool Introduces ES ServerRacks Water Cooling Solutions
2U with 24 drive bays is in work ;-) Also water cooling ready :p
That's 2.5" though, it'd be a bit difficult fitting 24 3.5" slots in a 2U form factor :P
Please also make a 3.5" 16-bay (or even 24-bay :D) 4U chassis!
Reasons as to why someone would go for a solution like this; less noise, better thermals.
This also applies to systems that rely on multiple graphics cards for rendering. We can cool up to 2400W in a 4U enclosure. Especially when using multiple graphics cards, this also ensures maximum boost clock on all cards and thus a significantly higher computing performance in continuous operation, while air-cooled solutions also start to throttle drastically quite quickly. The coolers on the graphics cards do not manage to cool the temperatures in a server rack well enough under continuous full load so that they do not throttle drastically.
We don't develop such things because we want to, but because our customers ask for such solutions ;-)
You had to screw the fan somewhere very near (usually onto the case) so the cooling was applied. Now in servers you dont have that luxury, so all that was possible was like 7cm in between the heatsink and fan. We fired up the server, installed the OS, went back to home for remote management, the damn thing is not even 10 minutes operational and already signs of overheating CPU.
Bottompoint; servers just need the cooling and noise is'nt usually a problem. The enviroment is usually airconditioned at constant temps; to ensure proper cool air entering the cabinet in where all the servers are housed and proper withdrawl of air at the back. If you use such a rack at home, this thing might be very handy, for those who want a server looking thing or 2U case but without the (extreme) noise a server brings:
Fans just ramp up at 10k rpm. Enough to cut your fingers.
Narrow rack so yeah long narrow radiator with a pump already makes a lot of sense seeing better air coolers are way taller than the rack is.
But this kind of all in one solution still shoves out hot air at the rear of the rack, as regular air coolers do too, this is in no way comparable to the Asetek solution.
The latter implies the server is cooling the water, not the water is cooling the server.
Either way I doubt water is used and it should also be renamed liquid cooled.
TL;DR: stay the f*ck away from turned on high-RPM fans, or your fingers and nails will suffer
We have similar solutions like Asetek. But we have a lot of customers who want exactly such solutions. Especially in the 1 and 2U sector. The complex structures of a solution where the heat is conducted outside are not in demand here because they are too expensive. On the other hand, there are of course also enquiries about cooling solutions via a chiller and the like. But these are all special solutions that we customise and manufacture. The products presented here are series products.
BTW: Asetek was one of the last on the market with Server Solutions. Some other brands was much earlier on the market with similar solutions. But they never invested much in advertising. Therefore, the solutions are not very well known to the public, although some of them dominate the market.