This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] OT: Gotta love bean counters

Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Re: [Avid-L2] OT: Gotta love bean counters

Some AC systems come with a device called a thermostat. It will turn
the cooling off when it's not needed. Today, where I live you could
just open a window and have all the cooling your drives could possibly
need. --J.B.

Mark Spano cutandcover@gmail.com [Avid-L2] wrote:
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> Yes, that's hilarious. Let's put in an AC and not factor in how much
> it's going to cost to run. If they're spinning drives, the running
> temp does not change at night!
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> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 12:38 AM, John Moore bigfish@pacbell.net
> <mailto:bigfish@pacbell.net> [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>> wrote:
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> I heard from an AE friend that they put in a new Air Conditioner
> in the machine room where he's working because they were told by
> all the engineers their Sans were running way hot and problems
> would arise from the high temps. Now after a month or so they
> got the AC bill or power bill for the AC and it's so high they
> decided to shut off the AC at night. Well doesn't a san run just
> as hot at night as during the day, or at least pretty close
> depending on the temperature outside? Am I wrong to think this
> makes no sense. Of course I'm not paying the AC bill but if you
> spend the money to install the AC unit I'd think it should be on
> round the clock. Oh well when a san dies ad a seasons worth of
> media is lost the AC bill might not seem so high. I've heard many
> engineers talk about the newer sans like isis generating a lot
> less heat and thereby there is a substantial savings in AC and
> electricity to power the San. This makes me less skeptical of
> some of those suggestions I've heard over the past few years.
> John Moore
> Barking Trout Productions
> Studio City, CA
> bigfish@pacbell.net <mailto:bigfish@pacbell.net>
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