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Tangentially, my last company made sophisticated routers, dissipating ~3kW of heat. We had hard drives in them for persistent logs. There was a big problem whe
by AceJohnny2 5y ago
Tangentially, my last company made sophisticated routers, dissipating ~3kW of heat. We had hard drives in them for persistent logs.
There was a big problem where we needed to upgrade the fans to deal with the heat dissipation, but it was destroying the performance of the spinning disk HDDs due to the vibration of the fans.
(these were 2U devices with 5 boards: 2 control-plane boards (1 active, 1 on stand-by for redundancy) & 3 data-plane boards (2 active, 1 stand-by))
- Dylan16807 5y agoSo I'd say the obvious solution would be suspending the drive on relatively big pieces of rubber, like https://m.media-amazon.com/images/S/aplus-media/sc/a32b42cb-4f54-4914-8320-8aae62b27478.__CR0,0,300,300_PT0_SX300_V1___.jpg https://m.media-amazon.com/images/S/aplus-media/sc/a32b42cb-... If it was a big problem, that must not have been viable? Too cramped?
- AceJohnny2 5y agoExactly, there was no room for the rubber dampeners that were the obvious solution, and much frustration from the engineers that this wasn't planned ahead.