Anyone thinking of Racking folders

kerrgreg · 27 Mar 2013 at 09:27

So, Ive been looking around my house thinking how noise and quiet it is with no folders around the place, however I dont want to fill my garage with them and I know it wont be cool enough in the summer so.. was thinking about racking them in a data center I already have a couple of servers (atoms) so it would only be increasing my capacity, now here is the thing.

The space and Power gets cheaper the more you take so, would anyone else be interested in sharing the space with me or using the space. Theres allot of things to discuss but at the moment I dont have the room to grow so Im going to be going for something bigger and Im not tied in so its the perfect time to move around.

I guess the guys with the 4 cpu rigs might be interested but really its open to anyone.

kerrgreg · 27 Mar 2013 at 14:12

Great comments cheers guys. They are the issues I've been faced with but I'm working around them. Oh and I have 4x rack cases which are "spare" with and without PSUs

kerrgreg · 27 Mar 2013 at 21:15

Delboy said:
What data centers allow you to put in your own servers then?

Almost all of them

They are not competitors so theirs plenty I can link here:

http://www.Peer1.com
http://ccpg.co.uk/colocation/
http://www.datanet.co.uk/
http://www.c4l.co.uk/

Anything from racking a server in a shared environment to renting entire racks.

kerrgreg · 27 Mar 2013 at 21:52

Biffa said:
Its called colocation, been around for donkeys

Furthermore thats how most places have a presence in a DC, rarely does a DataCentre own and provide a service to customer, normally they resell the space in bulk to another party who can deal with the customers and provide a service to them, be it virtualization, email, hosting etc.

kerrgreg · 27 Mar 2013 at 22:57

Im sure Ive seen biffa say he runs one on and 850w psu or it draws 850w so either way its less than 2amps by my maths

kerrgreg · 27 Mar 2013 at 23:24

Yeah that bugs me too.

Well looks like Im going for a 14u rack with a friend at £250 PM with 4amp power commit there is data charge on that too but he will be using most of the data, so the price wouldnt go up too much for more power.

To put it in perspective ive been quoted £600 for dual 32amps on a 48u rack so although its £600pm you would get 12 4u GPU folding machines with plenty of room for draw. Which makes it around £50 per month per server which I think is good not as cheap as running them at home I guess, but more convenient. Of course that comes down nicely if you start looking at 2u servers...

kerrgreg · 28 Mar 2013 at 00:18

I have the details drop me a PM or if you prefer I can look into going for a bigger rack and we can reap the benefits of a shared rack?

kerrgreg · 28 Mar 2013 at 01:44

That is pretty good biffa.. not much b/w though.. guess it would be enough though.. where abouts? linky?

kerrgreg · 28 Mar 2013 at 02:46

Hmm, I know all business's start somewhere but I wouldnt be putting £x thousands of hardware at that location....

kerrgreg · 29 Mar 2013 at 07:28

Snapshot said:
Your maths needs a remedial course.
850W and 230V gives ~3.7A.

Ahhh poo!!!

kerrgreg · 29 Mar 2013 at 07:30

JonJ678 said:
On a closely related point, how do data centers feel about water cooling? There's the risk of a 4U box leaking and damaging everything below it, and conceivably of getting water on the incoming power cable. So on balance I expect resistance.

If you take a full rack its your responcablitly what you put inside it. Really there's no need to water cool a PC in a rack since air flow is front to back with a nice 14-18 deg c cold side temperature you should have the coldest running machine you've had in a while!