RE: OT: Fire suppression in server room
- From: "Thomas W Shinder" <tshinder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 12:34:50 -0600
Done. :)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Harrison [mailto:Jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 9:42 AM
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> EEEEeeeeeeeeekkkkkkkkkk!!!!!!
>
> Water for electronic fire suppression?!?!?
> Tell your building manager that he's SO fired!!
>
> If you're not using CO2, Halon or a dry chemical system, you're just
> asking for more pain than you need (but maybe not more than you
> deserve?).
>
> Also, if your fire system doesn't kill power to the servers FIRST,
> you're really in for some fun. The emergency power kill
> *MUST* disable
> any UPS as well or it's useless.
>
> Tom; you need to forward this query to "you-know-who" -
> she'll love it.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Moore [mailto:RMoore@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 7:32 AM
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> Subject: [isalist] OT: Fire suppression in server room
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>
> Hello all--
>
> This is rather off topic, but I figured you all probably have
> experience
> with this. I KNOW you'll have opinions! :-)
>
> Our current server room is just a room in our department. The
> only fire
> suppression in there is a fire extinguisher hanging on the
> wall--nothing
> automated. We're building a new server room in the basement,
> though, and
> the space already has water-based sprinklers. The building manager
> thinks that should be fine. ("If the sprinklers go off, we
> just dry off
> the servers with a hair dryer and start them back up.") But I'm not so
> sure. I know he sees it from a cost point of view--the cost
> of building
> the room--whereas I see it from the cost of having to replace
> water-damaged servers, not to mention having downtime while
> we do that.
>
> What sort of automated fire suppression systems (if any) do you have?
>
> Thanks,
> Rob
>
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