' Wrote:I have a 1000VA UPS at home, which I repaired and saved from being dumped (It had dead batteries and 4 blown off MOSFET. A $60 fix, for a $200 UPS:D). Believe me when I tell you it does not lasts for long. It holds ~30 mins if my computer is Idling. And that is if the monitor is turned off. While on full load, it lasts only 15- mins. It uses two 12v 9Ah batteries.
Now, considering that disco server is under full load almost 24/7, we would need a really powerful UPS in order to keep the server running for a considerable amount of time. The UPS would be more expensive than the whole server. That's why I say its overkill.
Don't freak out because of the server. If it has to fail, it will no matter what we do. It's murphy's law. And go sleep well. Don't let it f**k up your real life.
As the server is on a basement, noise isn't a concern. In fact, we could just put a 220V fan tunneled to the heatsink... Crude, but really cheap.
No, i'm not talking about a room fan, but from a heavy duty fan used to cool down machinery. I think its 150-200mm in diameter, and moves a lot of air. It can fit inside the rack, and take air from the outside.
OK, no UPS, you're did beat me with arguments. I'll do something to back up the data to another PC every day, so we don't loose anything vital.
About the huge fan, I think we should attach something more professional to the CPU if we want to try 3.5GHz, but attaching a big fan on the top of the server rack is not a bad idea and it would be cheap. Actually even without the fan the air inside the rack circulates quite well as there are 2 holes in it - one at the top and another one at the bottom, so it works like a chimney, as the warm air goes out at the top and the cold air is sucked from the bottom. And we are lucky our server is right next to the bootom hole...:)
