Liquid Cooling

[Ted Roche]

On May 27, 2006, at 12:40 PM, Sean wrote:

> I was thinking of trying out liquid cooling and wanted to ask if  
> anyone here has played with this type of setup?
>
> Was it worth the effort, any tips, things to be aware of?

I've had a liquid cooled data center for the past two weeks. There  
can be a lot of problems with humidity, and moist air entrains dust  
and tends to accumulate the dust and cocker spaniel hairs on things  
like fans, decreasing throughput, and heat sinks, lowering heat  
transfer efficiencies.

Now that the sump pumps have caught up and the moldy furniture has  
been tossed, I think I'll go back to more conventional cooling, and  
look into french drains.

<extract tongue from cheek>

Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com