Thanks for the replies. Sounds like I'm not alone in having a warm room for
my servers.
I checked with Dell - Their servers are rated 50-95 degrees F
IBM rates the AS/400 we have as 50-100 degrees F
Our room hit 88 F yesterday.
Curious thing is that both the Dell and IBM techs I talked to groaned about
the 88 F number. They both thought 68-72 was "Desirable". But neither
could find anything in writing stating that cooler temperatures were
"optimal".
Seems like equipment these days is just built to handle higher temps then
the stuff we all grew up on.
Todd Anderson
-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Polvinale [mailto:
garyp@...]
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 11:55 AM
To:
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Subject: RE: [Vantage] [Off Topic] Summer temperatures
Todd,
I'm with you there. My office/computer-room is 75-85 most of the time. I
have the "open-door" air-conditioner too. Not my preference. They wouldn't
spring for real A/C. I keep the door tied open. Summer is OK while A/C is
running in rest of building, but gets a little warm in winter with the heat
turned on. 3 years like this and everything has been OK. Components are
tougher than I had thought.
Stay cool,
Gary Polvinale
Denton ATD
-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Caughey [mailto:
caugheyt@...]
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 12:32 PM
To:
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Subject: RE: [Vantage] [Off Topic] Summer temperatures
Lucky if I can maintain it below 80. Very poor location without seperate
cooling system. Mostly I leave the door open all day. Constant issue with
building maintenance people and requests to CEO to do something to improve
it. On the other hand it has not seemed to harm anything over the long haul
so perhaps components are more tolerant. I would be more worried about wide
swings in temp than a somewhat high constant temp. It was a lot worse with
two NT servers and switches in there along with the ancient AS/400 (what a
heater!) and the Twin-Axial hubs but the old stuff is gone now so it has
helped.
-Todd C.
-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Anderson [mailto:
tanderson@...]
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 11:04 AM
To: '
vantage@yahoogroups.com'
Subject: [Vantage] [Off Topic] Summer temperatures
What temperature do you folks try to maintain for your "Computer Rooms"?
I'm old school where 68-70 degrees F is a good target. On the other hand I
was just looking at Dell's website for 2600 servers where the operating
range is 50-95 F. I find it hard to believe that 90-95 is a 'good' range
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