Alexios Zavras wrote: > I was looking for an answer to the following: > I'm installing some equipment on a customer data center > (~100 servers, Netapps, switches, etc.). > The customer insists that, in order to have the cabling "neat", > all cables should be "made-to-measure", i.e. cut and made on the spot, > without any excess loops. He even suggested this for power cords! > Early in my career, I had to custom make my own cables, because the small company I worked for owner thought it was "cheaper" than buying cables (actually at the time it was cheaper). However, in the long run, we had to make new cables every time we changed something. Remember, custom mean one-use-only.
About 10 years ago, I was doing an install of a DR site in Chicago, a union town. The union electricians had to make every single cable, both network and power, by hand to measure. A job that should have taken me about a day (actually less) ended up taking three weeks, due to high failure rate and rework. Also, (I don't know if this has changed over the years or not) the custom made power cables are just butt ugly because the plugs are bolted on rather than being formed/extruded rubber covered. Kind of kills the whole idea of "neat" if you have large and ugly plugs. In this day, with cables as cheap as they are, and with every possible length available, the extra couple of inches you save by making them exactly the right length just isn't worth the time and effort. -spp _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
