RE: DS20L

[Maurice Hilarius <maurice harddata com>]

With regards to your message at 02:27 PM 5/30/02, Peter Petrakis. Where you 
stated:
> > I have set these up to run customer benchmarks twice now.
> > Once a long time ago, and once just two weeks ago.
> > Both times, when room temperature rose to about 25C after a few hours I had
> > stalled machines.
>
> So you where running hardware that is known to dissipate significant heat in
> a machine room that had inadequate cooling? That's 77 F you're talking about.
> That is uncomfortably warm for a machine room or any room for that matter, You
> should never be past 70F, 65F ideally. At API, Our labs had 'two' full air
> conditioners and even if one failed we wouldn't get the lab hotter than 74F
> tops. It was a cool 63-67F when they where both operational. Cold enough 
> that if
> you worked in there for
> a significant period of time you either wore a long sleeved shirt (me) or
> a vest.

I agree completely.
One should never run servers in a room over 20C

Try telling that to some of the customers..

Reality is lots of people don't have that kind of cooling.




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