I've got a cheapskate boss so I've run them 95F+ for long periods of time. They're not properly rackmounted - due to our crappy and proprietary Panduit racks we have no choice but to use shelves - which may have helped them survive.
Don't be surprised if you get warranty rejections from the excessive heat. Murray Freeman wrote: > Like many companies these days, we're looking to reduce our expenses. > With the hot weather almost here in the Chicago area, I'm being asked to > up the thermostat in our server room, to allow it to get warmer and thus > save some money. We have been keeping the temperature around the mid > 70's, and I'm concerned about higher temps in the server room causing > servers to crash or at least reduce their lifetime. What od you think is > the maximum operating temperature for a room with servers? We humans are > not in the room that often, so it's strictly a case of a safe > temperature for the hardware. There's no need to determine how many > servers I have or how large the room is, just the temperature necessary > to safely operate servers. -- Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
