Can a server get too chilled out?
November 12, 2009 by Valerie HelmbreckPosted in: Data centers, IT projects, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, file-sharing, servers, storage
Keeping servers from overheating means a lot to data center admins, but the folks at Google have some lessons in how cool they should be that may sound counter-intuitive to folks who manage server arrays.
Researchers at the search giant published a paper not long ago that showed servers failing at a much higher rate at 59 degrees than at 122.
The paper’s authors used data from more than 100,000 SATA and PATA drives with 80-400 GB capacities.
While Google’s data centers dwarf those of the average small or mid-size firm, the company’s using servers similar in size and type, shunning the pricey RAID-class disks.
To read an abstract of the Google research paper or to download a PDF of the whole study, click here.
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