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> It says it has spent $65,000 to transfer the servers to a climate-controlled center. It is leasing the new facility for $37,000 per month, after its contracts

by corin_ 14y ago

> It says it has spent $65,000 to transfer the servers to a climate-controlled center. It is leasing the new facility for $37,000 per month, after its contracts with a prior facility expired. I would imagine that means they were powered down for the move.

stephengillie 14y ago
...and powered back up after the move, again consuming power and internal network (if not external), as well as running up the MTBF counter on consumable hardware like HDDs, RAM, controller batteries, power supplies, etc.
- corin_ 14y ago
  The only reason to keep them on 24/7 is "they might encrypt on shutdown", so if they powered them off they wouldn't now need to keep them powered up. Unless they used backup power during the move, which seems unlikely.
  - stephengillie 14y ago
    You make a very good point.
rdtsc 14y ago
Not necessarily. There are setups to keep seized hardware powered up during the move. They have it for laptops so I would guess someone sells that for whole racks as well.
- stephengillie 14y ago
  http://www.wiebetech.com/products/HotPlug.php http://www.wiebetech.com/products/HotPlug.php