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New Data Center Standard
mstansberry writes to tell us that the Telecommunications Industry Association (the people who brought you the CAT standards for unshielded twisted pair cabling) recently published a 148 page document meant to standardize the design considerations for every single aspect of a data center. The standard covers everything from site selection to rack mounting methods.
Seriously. If all manuals were that expensive there would have been no 'RTFM'. It would have been 'STFM'.
Loose lips lose spit.
I welcome this standard with open arms. I look forward to the not-too-distant day when I will be able to buy 100m(sq) of Standard Data Centre on eBay for $25. No more un-backed-up un-RAIDed hard drives for my mp3s!
// It had been Fat's delusion for years that he could help people. --Philip K. Dick, Valis
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I never said I was smart, I just said I was smarter than you
Did they later convert that space to a cubicle farm?
I think I worked there.
-- My Weblog.
But without raised floors where am I supposed to hide the bodies?
To me, that does not imply buying a cheap rack, getting a T1 and a router, and sticking 5 servers in whatever closet is available in your office space.
You just described our setup almost exactly.