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Old 22nd June 2005 | 22:31
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Saab Dastard
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They are fault tolerant insofar as they have hot-pluggable, redundant power supplies, redundant network cards, error correcting memory, RAID arrays, hot-pluggable nics, hot-pluggable fans, hot-pluggable disks.

Having one of these servers working in a reasonably well ventilated room IS keeping it in a reasonable environment.

They are well cooled, that's why they have multiple fans - that's why they are noisy.

The problem only arises when they can no longer reject the excess heat into the environment - or to put it in plain English, the room gets too hot. That simply won't happen running one single server (even with 4 CPUs) in a normal, reasonably well ventilated room.

How many PCs could you have working in your front room before they start doing "misterious" things? One? Two? Four? Eight?

You really haven't a clue, do you?
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