Optimize your data center cooling!
In today’s fast-paced world, protecting and storing large banks of data is vitally important. Having an optimal data cooling center will extend the lifetime of your servers as well as get the best performance out of them. In this blog, we’ll discuss three tips for designing an optimal data cooling center. Call on the experts, such as Crockett, to help you out.
Optimal Design Tip #1: Find the Right Place
You often hear it in other industries, but the saying “location, location, location” still holds true. Interior structures such as pillars and slabs can complicate where you should place your servers and support systems. Poor layouts will increase energy costs without much difference performance-wise. Focus on finding wide-open spaces without any obstacles. Servers, processors, and cooling towers all take up a lot of floor space. Again, this is where equipment installation handled by the experts can take much of the responsibility off of your hands.
Optimal Design Tip #2: Arrange Your Cables Correctly
Avoid confusing disasters such as cables being arranged incorrectly. Equipment downtime can be avoided by having cables marked and arranged correctly. Tangled up and unmarked cables will lead to vital pieces of equipment losing power, especially if the wrong ones are disconnected due to confusion over which cable leads to which piece of equipment. Consider how appliances and electronics in your home depend on their power cords being plugged in and left undamaged. Now consider how that same principle could affect their larger cousins. Make it easier on your employees in busy data centers by taking such simple measures as color-coding and labeling cables.
Conduits are another useful consideration when it comes to cables. Conduits help keep cables organized and also protect them from water sources. They also serve as hubs for different cable connections, especially for identifying the primary power source and the backup power source, the redundant power source. But remember, avoid conduit models that are too small; these will inhibit future processing potential and prevent your optimal data cooling center from taking shape.
Optimal Design Tip #3: Establish Proper Cooling Mechanisms
Computers run hot when left on long enough and when working at maximum speed and power. This thermodynamic concept holds true with server equipment as well; after all, they are essentially oversized computer equipment. The original computers, first created in the mid 20th-century, greatly resemble modern servers. Cooling mechanisms are an indispensable part of how to design an optimal data cooling center. So how do you do this? Regular air conditioners or chillers tend to consume large amounts of energy, but with the right people and know-how, this won’t be an issue. Have commercial air conditioning units and chillers installed and maintained by the experts. You can trust a company like Crockett Facilities–chillers and other air conditioner-based cooling systems are our speciality!
Crockett Facilities Can Help!
This is where Crockett Facilities Services, Inc. (CFSI) can help. We service all types of HVAC equipment, including packaged terminal air conditioners (PTACs), air handling units (AHUs), rooftop units (RTUs), chillers, boilers, heat pumps and mission-critical computer room air conditioners (CRACs).
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Over the years, we have fine-tuned and customized our preventive maintenance practices to ensure the best performance possible, extending the life of your HVAC equipment.
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