Not too noisy. Was contemplating a fanless PSU, but a temperature controlled fan in the PSU seems good enough + added safety.
The case fans are temperature controlled by the motherboard as well. There is one intake fan in front of the lower hard drives, I may add another (in front of the upper hard drives) when I have a full compliment of drives - if the temperatures indicate a need for one.
Being an apartment dweller, I have limited opportunity for placing the server out of the way where i can't hear it. People with Basements / Garages / closets / spare rooms wired for power + ethernet don't know how lucky they are. So instead I do the best I can, and keep an eye on what other people have done on the SPCR forums.
Shelly, you forgot the [irony] or [sarcasm] tags. The furniture needs to be upgraded to to cope with the new addition.
Maybe this will give you a clue as to why centering isn't currently feasible.
The server is running 64 bit Windows 7 for historical reasons. It functions as a "proper" server proving services, like say
realtime transcoding of 720p mkv Blu ray rips for viewing on an Ipad, via Air Video. I may also want to install some VM's . Probably overkill for most things I want to do, but solves a bunch of problems for me now, and likely in the future.