21 May
2019
21 May
'19
10:03 a.m.
all systems have their advantages disadvantages it all depends on what your
doing and designs u choose. personaly i think raised floor and tray above
are best then u keep all ur power below away from ur data lines plus but
then ur setup is only as good as the lazyest tech u get comming in running
stuff.
On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 11:38 AM Patrick Finnegan via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Tue, May 21, 2019, 04:13 Christian Corti via cctalk
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cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
You definitely need a raised floor
for a data center. You need it for forced air cooling and for running the
water and condensate pipes.
Ductwork doesn't have to be below the floor. Modern co-lo facilities that I
have been in (such as Switch Supernap) don't have a raised floor.
Plumbing (unless you're doing aisle containment or RDHx) shouldn't run
through the IT space in the data center.
Cooling water to racks should be dewpoint adjusted, so you don't need
condensate drains inside the DC.
And overhead trays are much more difficult to
work with if you want to lay new cables because
you have to climb up and
down the ladder all the time, moving the ladder from here to there and
back to here...
I solved that by having multiple ladders. In my experience, it's a lot
easier than trying to reach through a cluttered raised floor under racks.
The only good reason that I have seen in this thread for a raised floor is
to match older equipment that routes cables downwards.
Pat