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Cooler Servers or Cooler Rooms?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the six-of-one-half-a-dozen-of-another dept.

mstansberry writes "Analysts, experts and engineers rumble over which is more important in curbing server heat issues; cooler rooms or cooler servers. And who will be the first vendor to bring water back into the data center?"

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  1. #GNAA irc.uk.gnaa.us by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FO LIFE

  2. uh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first p0st! cheese ...but by the time my computer decides to send the p0st it won't be first... so...

    fourth/fifth/sixth p0st!

  3. first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    water in server housings O_o much too dangerous ...

  4. Re:well I've always wondered this by Bastian · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What makes sense is what solution is cheap and reliable.

    On one hand, it should take much less juice to cool just a few boxen directly rather than keep an entire room cold enough to keep all those CPU cores cool as well.

    On the other hand, high-performance cooling systems inside every box means a lot more points of failure.

    On the other hand, if everything in your server room requires a working HVAC to function, you're in trouble if the HVAC goes out - while if the cooling system in one server goes out, you can just swap it with a backup server while you're waiting for repairs.

    I'm sure there's a whole lot more pro/con that I could parrot if I had bothered to RTFA. . .

  5. Re:Aquafina... by ari_j · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Finally, we can have a flamewar over something outside the computer realm. I say Aquafina is the best bottled water that can possibly ever exist. Fiji sucks donkey balls, and Arrowhead just tastes like dirt. And don't even get me started on Evian - that stuff will turn you gay.

    Or should I have just posted: "I, for one, welcome our new aquatic overlords." ?

  6. Re:So what is the best temp for the room by Tjoppen · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Would that be kelvin, Celsius or Fahrenheit?

  7. Sex wiTh a Fagorz by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    [idge.net] windows, SUN or NetBSD poSts On survival prospects when IDC recently when IDC recently and shower. For series of exploding towels on the floor