[123375] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FreeAxez raised flooring?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Durack)
Fri Mar 5 16:11:52 2010
In-Reply-To: <20100305191539.GA48474@typo.org>
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 16:11:10 -0500
From: Tim Durack <tdurack@gmail.com>
To: "Wayne E. Bouchard" <web@typo.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Wayne E. Bouchard <web@typo.org> wrote:
> Actually, my experience has been that most of the newer installations
> (last 5-7 years) that I have been able to see where raised floor is
> employed are also doing hot/cold rows.
We have/are building new datacenters with a raised floor plenum. Air
is directed into the racks from below, and ducted out of the top. No
hot/cold aisle, just lots of cold air to cool the equipment. It's an
AFCO rack design. Seems to be efficient so far.
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Tim:>
