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So this is bikeshed territory but what with the shape of the "box"? You can't stack anything on it and it seems to take much more room than necessary that way.

Reading the (mouse hijacking) technology page I see:

>Helm is a high-performance server with capabilities normally found in larger, business-class hardware. To accomplish this performance in a smaller (and quieter) form factor, Helm has been engineered to dissipate heat through its aluminum base.

Is that the reason behind the design? Does it mean it's fully passive cooling? Also is it really necessary to have that much cooling in the first place? An email server doesn't need that much juice normally, especially for a small handful of users.




The design actually allows for server stacking when you need more compute or storage. It does fully passive cooling with no fan.


Are there third parties selling servers with this form factor? Or would we be locked into Helm when we need more compute or storage?




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