Are everyone else's server rooms noisy?
Do you have continuous sound metering, do you put meters in from time to time, or do you just put up with it?
Does anyone wear ear protectors in a server room?
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Are everyone else's server rooms noisy?
Do you have continuous sound metering, do you put meters in from time to time, or do you just put up with it?
Does anyone wear ear protectors in a server room?
Best Answer
Even though a server room isn't unbearably loud, it's noticeable at least. I've spent a few days in our server room at the datacenter a while (=2 years) ago because everything went very bad when one of the juniors hooked up an insecure windows server into the domain (woopeee, reinstall the domain :/). I play drums myself, so I have very nice ear protection. I brought those on the second day, and I noticed a very big difference in my condition at the end of the day. On the first day, I was a wreck. The constant noise, even though you don't really notice it after a while, really wears you out physically. With the earplugs everything is so much more relaxed.
I can really recommend buying a set of earplugs with a separate filter, something like these. You don't want el-cheapo earplugs, because you'll have to replace them too often. Getting a set of these with interchangeable filters works for more than just the datacenter. At a music concert for instance, or when you have to go to other noisy (maybe louder) environments.