Re: Ambient temperature control

On 7/2/2024 7:30 AM, legg wrote:

What's the mtbf of a fan? a compressor? a pump?
. . . . or a clamp and a block of aluminum?

As long as it isn't significantly worse than the impact of NOT
having it, you don't care -- because some (relatively unskilled)
local contractor can fix those things.  You don't have to
hire a skilled member of staff to be on-hand to deal with the
"more sophisticated" technology's potential failures.
I'd much rather have an HVAC guy come in and repair the AHU in
the datacenter -- even if it was an annual event -- than have
to risk servers crashing or having to be replaced (and the
data recovered).  The former is a "cheap", ubiquitous skillset;
the latter considerably costlier and critical.

Ambient and component temperatures are freely obtained and carefully
controlled elements in mtbf documentation recording methods.
 The former requires $$ equipment.
 RL