[rescue] Raised floor - first shots of installation...

[Brian Hechinger]

On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 05:43:29PM -0400, Mike Johnson wrote:
>  
> That said, it was an absolute -mess- underfloor.  We had cat 5,
> thickwire, thinwire, all sorts of different power cables/connections
> (the server room was built to hold four early 80's VAXen, each of which
> were gigantic and took, I think, three-phase power) and it was nearly 
> impossible to trace a cable.
> 
> I -much- prefer overhead cable runs.  It's a lot easier to trace, and a
> lot easier to change.

underfloor can be as easy to trace and change, as long as it's done right.  if
you have a dedicated "infrastructure team" like ebay does, or if you are very
anal (john p comes to mind, i LOVE under the floor of that datacenter) it is
not so bad.

but if you are a lazy shit like me, overhead is WAY easier to deal with. :)

-brian
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