Yes - think of all the nasty partial failure cases that can be eliminated - each entire datacenter is either up or down. Much simpler!
Getting back to reality, I've watched more than one electrician do a two-finger liveness test on a 120v circuit, and done it myself. 240v HURTS, and I've not seen a pro finger it deliberately. But I haven't actually asked. On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 01:34:41PM -0700, Ray Sanders wrote: > So when one server fails, all the rest fail too? > On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 16:29 -0400, Barney Wolff wrote: > > Doesn't even need non-standard servers - just wire them all in series. > > > > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 03:23:46PM -0500, Kurt Anderson wrote: > > > Why stop there? Grab a 20,000 volt feeder and create a Tesla datacenter. -- Barney Wolff I never met a computer I didn't like.
