Servers and Heat

Check out Compaq's website:

http://www.compaq.com
-->servers

Pick your server, go to product info and tech specs. That shows the temperatures.

If you have a small room, there is good news and bad news. The good news is that it shouldn't take much to cool off a small area, the bad news is, if you have a sizable server, it will put out quite a bit more heat. You could look into wall hanging units for the comm room. They run roughly around $2K-$4K installed. Contact your local airconditioning maintenance company and they will give you free quotes.

I am having the same problem with my comm room. The controllers decided not to include my air conditioner when we remodelled and it is constantly around 85 degrees in there. We lost a power supply in our Citrix Server. It cost as much to replace the power supply and completely rebuild the server as a conditioner.

Hope this helped.

Hi, the previous posting is good for the specifics of your question. A general guideline is that computers work best in an environment that humans would be comfortable in (air temp. < 80(F) and rel. humidity between 30 and 60%). Cooler is better!Your concerns should be two-fold: too high temps can cause a system to shut-down (obviously an immediate problem) but they can also shorten the life of various components, which leads to more service calls, lower than average reliability and a shorter product life. These things increase the TCO of the server and should help support the argument in favor of spending money now to air-condition the computer room. Good luck

---Will

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