[164367] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What to expect after a cooling failure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Johnny Eriksson)
Wed Jul 10 02:10:10 2013
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 8:09:38 WET DST
From: Johnny Eriksson <bygg@cafax.se>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 09 Jul 2013 22:36:41 -0700
Reply-To: Johnny Eriksson <bygg@cafax.se>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Jake Khuon <khuon@NEEBU.Net> wrote:
> While others have already talked about what to look out for in terms of
> systems and drives, I haven't seen anyone mention things like your UPS
> batteries. Were they also heat-soaked? At one place I worked at, we
> lost a whole bank of batteries in the UPS room when it overheated. I
> think that was somewhere around a $95,000 replacement and required
> rush-delivery of a lot of SLAs from all over the place.
That is one reason to have the UPS and the batteries in separate rooms.
--Johnny
