[Gllug] Recommendations for servers

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My personal best was supporting a client who did video production:

- server in a cleaning cupboard which would regularly get beach
splashed on it. Standard temp ~30 degrees
- servers sat on nylon carpet with editors smoking near them, putting
ashtrays on them and
  splashing trychloroethane ( film-cleaning agent ) on them.
- the building was 20 feet from a train track which was used for
concrete shipments - most weeks
  when trains went by, they'd have disk errors due to heavy vibrations
(man!). Needless to say, they
  just bought new disks rather than doing the sensible things...

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On 25 November 2010 12:55, Chris Bell <chrisbell at chrisbell.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu 25 Nov, John Hearns wrote:
>
>>
>> And before there are any comments about their reliability, I put in
>> two racks of these at Queen Mary College about two years ago,
>> and they seemed quite happy.
>
>   Perhaps reliability depends on the actual environmental conditions more
> than most people realise. I have seen servers working in controlled
> installations with low temperature filtered air, as well as in unventilated
> broom cupboards suitable for use as ovens.
>
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