On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Dan Foster wrote: > Hot Diggety! Jeff Wasilko was rumored to have written: >> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:54:58PM -0500, Doug Hughes wrote: >>> for 1U stuff it can be a serious issue. >> >> Yeah. We can't get enough power to fill our racks with 1U boxes >> anyway, so we just go with 2U or larger. > > I'm a little confused by that logic. :) > > I'm probably not reading it right... (and *please* do correct me if > that's the case!) ...but are you saying that at your shop, you guys > chose 2U in order to occupy more space in the rack for a given power amount? > > If you were otherwise satisfied with 1U and had the same, finite amount > of power, why not just partially fill a rack with what you can get, > power-wise, in 1U? > > Colour me slightly confused. :-) > > Or was the main factors related to cooling or ease of access to the > servers' innards, rather than size of the form factor per se?
I've done similar in the past, the 2u boxes were a little cheaper (becouse everyone wanted the 1u) and the cooling was significantly better in the 2u. since the choice was 1u with gaps between servers (which then need extra effort to fill if you want to get good airflow) or 2u filling the rack it was a simple choice. David Lang _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
