12 Dec
2008
12 Dec
'08
7:12 p.m.
On Friday 12 December 2008, Jules Richardson wrote:
Anyway, all of this doesn't further the raised
floor discussion much,
except to say that things could be done without raised floors (and
given the way that computing evolved in the UK, if GPO convention was
to wire overhead then doubtless this was carried over into a lot of
computer installations; the US and other countries may have taken a
much different route though, with raised floors adopted much
earlier)
After having spend several years working in a datacenter with a raised
floor, I have to say that I really hate raised-floors, and prefer
overhead wiring. Keeping the wiring overhead makes it visible, which
makes it more necessary to keep it neat and tidy (and remove old wiring
which is no longer used).
Raised floors encourage people to make messes out of wiring because it's
all hidden. (Also, not having a raised floor provides less opportunity
for parts and tools to find the holes in the floor to fall through when
you drop them.)
Besides, why hide the wiring? You should proudly display all parts of
the computer system! :)
Pat
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