On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 11:54 -0400, Dan Pritts wrote: > On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 08:03:58PM -0700, Mark Schoonover wrote: > ><snip> > Depending on your application, overprovisioning your power might not > be a bad thing - next year's servers will probably use more. Good advice, IMO I have always overpowered the units I build. Theaoy being that the greater capacity used a much less than rating will run cooler (assuming the PS had at least cooling design adequate to the rating). Cooler = longer lived, generally. I'm still running a 1989 tower chassis (another of my preferences) with an AMD 100MHz, 36MB ram, couple slow Champ HDs as one of my IPCop stations. That unit still has original PS or only replacement, not sure anymore. I'm sure that rack-mounts powering multiple blades may also benefit from a little oversizing, although maybe not as much benefit, figuring they should be more robust at the start. > <snip> > danno > <snip sig stuff> -- Bill -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060809/c16d011c/attachment-0005.sig>