re: redundant power supplies. I never understood why a manufacturer would have an option to use a single power cord to connect to a power supply with two redundant power supplies in the same server. if someone trips over the single cord, as in the example below, then both supplies go down.
why not have all servers with dual power supplies connected to seperate UPS units so that if either the power supply fails, the UPS fails or the circuit to which the UPS is connected fails, the redundant power supply can take over. i know, many people would consider that kind of redundancy redundant, but we do not, too many strange thing have happened. i'd rather spend the money on prevention than waste a day "fixing" something that could have been prevented while 50 angry office workers and untold numbers of customers are screaming at me on the telephone and thru the doorway about the fact they can't get the pictures that their grandkids sent them via e-mail. Bruce Barnes -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Doug Traylor Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 21:24 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] OT: hardware company Dell. We have a sales rep, not that it's a big deal. I got a 10% discount last time I bought some little thing. The big deal is their service. It's nice to get a new hard drive air mailed in four hours or less when one decides to die. ..And their dependability...we have been using the same 150 Dell computers, more or less(desktops and servers), for four years with few failures of anything but ~10 cpu fans becoming squeaky and ~5 power supply fans. A couple of scsi drives in one of our raid systems have been replaced without incident or noticeable downtime, and that's it. Not counting the usual programmer/sysadmin induced system meltdowns! :o) Like the guy who was walking behind the servers and tripped on and pulled out one power cord from a raid with supposedly redundant dual power, that corrupted the container and caused us a day of downtime and lost work. Good times, good times. :o) Doug Traylor On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 15:03:23 -0500, Matrosity Tech Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yes, don't screw around pinching pennies with your revenue, get a dell. > > > Internet Relations wrote: > I'd 2nd that. Dell. To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
