How Cold is your Server Room?

Ev0 · 9 Jan 2010 at 23:48

fluiduk said:
Good place to hide in the summer though

oh yes, expecially when they won't put aircon in the office for various reasons

Guest2 · 12 Jan 2010 at 10:39

34*c yikes.

16*c here

mrbios · 12 Jan 2010 at 11:22

Ev0 said:
oh yes, expecially when they won't put aircon in the office for various reasons

We had the aircon replaced with a newer, more eco friendly one recently in our server room.....put the old one up on the wall in our new office

so much for energy saving

dave-lew99 · 12 Jan 2010 at 17:37

mrbios said:
put the old one up on the wall in our new office so much for energy saving

Ah but doesn't that now mean it's paid for out of a different budget?

chriscubed · 14 Jan 2010 at 20:21

A/C is set to 18 degrees, though it feels about 10 degrees as the room is so small the A/C points directly at you wherever you stand!

blueacid · 19 Jan 2010 at 23:22

I wonder, though, with a redundant setup (ie RAID / dual routers / etc), what the trade off on cost would be. Ie, "keep the room at 27c, save money on air con and spend it on replacing failed hardware".

There's blatantly a nice tradeoff somewhere.

Nikumba · 20 Jan 2010 at 07:29

blueacid said:
I wonder, though, with a redundant setup (ie RAID / dual routers / etc), what the trade off on cost would be. Ie, "keep the room at 27c, save money on air con and spend it on replacing failed hardware".

There's blatantly a nice tradeoff somewhere.

There probally is, but it would be unwise, our server room has 6 units all set to 18oC, so its nice and cold, we have about 50 wintel servers and 3 i5's.

But if we look at the temps on our blade, the intake is about 15oC but output is close to 45oC, so goes up by a fair margin, so setting it to 27oC would mean that the output would be close to 60oC and most servers would get grumpy at that, not to mention would not be a nice place to work if your air con could not shift all the heat

Kimbie