Re: Dead PM-3 (fwd)

Jacob Suter (jsuter@intrastar.net)
Mon, 14 Apr 1997 19:59:03 -0500

> Also, some of those other boxes with 2 PS *CANNOT RUN ON ONE*. If one PS
> fails it won't be long until the other cooks itself because it can't run
> the entire box alone.

Odd. The heat dissipation for say... 9A@12V + 23A@5V (what the top of my
230W power supply feeding my 386 on my desk says) would be, well, a lot. I
haven't had my hands on any really new neato all-in-one boxen lately, but I
seriously doubt it could drag down a single 150W power supply.

> Two power supplies does not mean redundancy in all cases. Last I heard
we
> have the lowest failure rate due to PS failues - redundant supplies or
not.

Still, most admins (myself included) are anal about uptime, because uptime
= happy customers. No matter how false it appears :)

JS