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How to: My server room has flooded #solution #computers #programming

My server room has flooded

We recently went through a hurricane and our server room became flooded. Hooray for insurance. Anyway, I need to save as much data off one of the hard drives as possible. Yes, it was submerged for the better part of two days.

Do I need to open the drive and make sure it’s flood-water free? Should I remove the board on bottom and dry out the foam? What all do I need.

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How-to: How can you predict the amount of cooling needed for a particular piece of equipment? #it #solution #dev

How can you predict the amount of cooling needed for a particular piece of equipment?

Every summer we have to shut down some equipment due to a combination of outside temperature and high load. The air conditioners just can’t keep up. As we cycle in new equipment and cycle out old, it would be nice to know if we are making our cooling problem better or worse. Even better, I’d like to be able to…

Answer: Where to locate power outlets on server rack? #answer #programming #dev

Where to locate power outlets on server rack?

I’m building a new server room, and have to decide where I’ll be locating the power outlets (120V 30AMP locking connectors) that my UPSs will be powered from. In the past I’ve put the outlets on the back wall, and just run the cords up and over the ladder racking on to the back of the wall. But for this new server room I can’t locate the outlets on…

Answer: Reasons to not allow people into the server room #answer #it #development

Reasons to not allow people into the server room

I have worked at a few hosting companies and seen two schools of thought on this

Do not allow customers into the server room. The argument is basically it raises security (this news storyis normally provided as a reason that security is only good if you know the people) and privacy and that if you provide a local terminal for them it is good…

Fixed: How is fire spread in server rooms and datacenters? #computers #answer #solution

How is fire spread in server rooms and datacenters?

Every now and then I read that a severe fire has happened in some datacenter, lots of equipment has been damaged and customers have gone offline. Now I wonder what is there to support and spread fire?

I mean walls in a server room usually have little or no finish. Racks are made of metal. Almost all units have metal cases. Cables have (or at…