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Sometimes; but depreciation costs are usually more than either of those (for storage).
by jamwt 11y ago
Sometimes; but depreciation costs are usually more than either of those (for storage).
- yardie 11y agoDid you build your own centers? Running our hosting we had far more constraints on our power than anything else. Even though we only had 20U of equipment we ended up taking a 44u rack. Our disk arrays being the largest consumers. This made the case for moving to SSDs even stronger.
- dexterdog 11y agoThat was the problem I always had in my pre-cloud days. We were usually running racks half-full because of power restrictions in the DC. It was convenient because you could keep you cold spares and tools in your expensive space, but it always seemed like you should be putting more useful stuff in the racks.
- jamwt 11y agoYou can substantially change the economics if you design your own power distribution systems.
- scurvy 11y agoAye, but even off the shelf 3ph 50A 208v circuits gets you a lot of power. That's enough for 7 or 8 4U storage nodes with 70 drives each. Then again, I don't really like putting too much weight that high up in a rack that already has 2600lbs of gear in it.