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From: legg <legg@nospam.magma.ca>
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Subject: Re: Ambient temperature control
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2024 09:05:26 -0400
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On Tue, 2 Jul 2024 08:26:24 -0700, Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid>
wrote:

>On 7/2/2024 7:30 AM, legg wrote:
>> What's the mtbf of a fan? a compressor? a pump?
>> . . . . or a clamp and a block of aluminum?
>
>As long as it isn't significantly worse than the impact of NOT
>having it, you don't care -- because some (relatively unskilled)
>local contractor can fix those things.  You don't have to
>hire a skilled member of staff to be on-hand to deal with the
>"more sophisticated" technology's potential failures.
>
>I'd much rather have an HVAC guy come in and repair the AHU in
>the datacenter -- even if it was an annual event -- than have
>to risk servers crashing or having to be replaced (and the
>data recovered).  The former is a "cheap", ubiquitous skillset;
>the latter considerably costlier and critical.

You know what a brass tack is?

RL