Proactive Noise Management for a
Sriram.Prasath@gmail.com
Sustainable and Greener Data Center
Aim
To demonstrate how noise
management can lead to a more
sustainable and greener data center
Situation and Problem
Designed by separate team
Deployment/Logistic team provide
only execution
Zoning/Tiling Of Servers done as per
FIFD (First-In-First-Deployed)
Parameters currently under
consideration during PRD (pre-rack
deployment)
Tile
Selection
PRD
Temperature
(Cooling) Power
Excessive noise causes data loss from
hard drives.
Design, Deployment and Delivery of the
IT servers along with Data available with
the EHS team.
Consideration of different noise levels
from various machines as well as work
on alternative arrangements to see if
noise levels can be reduced.
Sriram Prasath
+91 9385503264
Methods Intended Results -
Potential Controls
1) Place a barrier between machine and
worker (i.e. enclosure of high noise
servers)
2) Reducing Vibrations to minimize
damages to IT systems.
3) New deployment of devices in Data
Centers with consideration for noise
as a factor.
4) Amount of time employee spends at
high noise source.
5) Active Noise cancelling headphones
Hard drives occur when they are exposed to noise above 120 dB, but some hard drives experienced
problems beginning at 110 dB.
Siemens study, a typical noise sensitivity profile was for 3.5 inch HDD
Noise reduction offers
advantages such as lower
peak power requirements
compared to existing systems
and lower overall energy
usage.
Noise data to Further info
be considered
at all locations
• ASHRAE TC 9.9 2011 Thermal Guidelines for Data Processing
Environments – Expanded Data Center Classes and Usage Guidance.
during
deployment
• NIH Sustainable Data Center Design Guide  
• Silent Extinguishing https://sid.siemens.com/v/u/A6V10699087
Project can will include
various methods that can be Acknowledgments
tried out in a pilot scale. NA