[rescue] New subscriber...

Steve Sandau ssandau at gwi.net
Mon Mar 15 10:39:01 CST 2004


>>>I run my ss10 (dual cpu) and ss4 on their sides with
>>>the air blowing out the "top."  I figure since heat
>>
>>I assume you don't block the incoming airflow onthe (now) bottom
>>side... Right?
>>Thinking you have an arrangement line the Indigo^2 "pedestal"...
> 
> 
> Yes, you are correct.  I have them up on blocks.
> 
> I don't know if this is common, or Sun approved, and I don't have any
> temperature figures to back it up, but like I said it works for me
> and they run fine.  If I had 8 or 9 of them like this they would
> take up the same amount of rack space either way and it would be easier
> to pull one out for maintenance.  :)
> 

There certainly is a precedent. I have a Sun-made stand for one of the 
IPXs I run that sits it up on its side.

Steve



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