Power Outages [Today: Update]

[Ilax]

Now picture something about 200 times the size of that piece of ram

Now if you touch the end of the ram at all you could pooch the ram, if you miscarry it, it will also fry.

Also, bear in mind this pic doesn't show any of the beastly UPS solutions. If they don't use the humongous car battery sized units that WILL essentially cover a wall, the rack mounted ones can easly take up 3U's in a rack for each one, and you may need more than one per rack. You also have to provide 2 220v lines with a locking 3-prong plug to provide them power, which is a non-standard outlet.

In otherwords...setting up a large-scale datacenter takes a lot of planning, and not something you just pick up and move. I worked on a 5 server move across town 2 years ago for a small software firm (only 11 employees btw, some who worked remotely and didn't have a local office) and it took us a weekend to make the move.

Just wow, stop watching movie >.>

There not much different from Home PC and server, outside the quality of the parts.... The ram (Physical Size) is the same... The hdd (Phisical size) is the same.

Ark 4U-500-CA Black 4U Rackmount Case

Spec:
ARK 4U-500-CA Black 4U Rackmount Case 3 External 5.25 inch Drive Bays ARK 4U-500-CA Black 4U Rackmount Case 3 External 5.25 inch Drive Bays Dimension DxWxH- 500mm x 483mm x 177mm Drive Bays-3xexternal 5.25 bay - 1xexternal 3.5 bay - 9xinternal 3.5 bay Motherboard- Micro ATX and ATX Power Supply- PS2 option.

Is just a compact storage.... You can put normal (home computer parts in it) Or commercial technology like SCSI HDD, and the only difference on SCSI and IDE are performance, which IDE lately get very close to SCSI on they performance and stability. (Raptor HDD to give and example 15,000 rpm 7yr warranty)

Of course Raptor is no match at all again all SCSI product since they more tolerant to HEAT/COLD/less error, data SEEK way faster and so on... I don't really need go all thru detail. For power they not require anything special like a 3-prong outlet ><

here a list of price/spec if you interest more...

Rack Mount PC - 4U

I saw your picture, and is nothing amazing compare bigger server room i saw in my life... I agree it can be complex to relocate them sometime due to many thing that i just don't wan go thru. But please don't make it sound like it would need a power generator that would take 10,000$ Gaz / day.... These PC take max 280~400 watt each, of course it add up fast since they have many, but not at the point you say.

Maybe they've never shown a picture because it's all still running on those tapes and reels like in the bad guys lair from the old Bond flicks??

I was starting to think the same..