[geeks] New Intel Atom-based barebones system

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm at mendelson.com>
>Date: 2008/08/20 Wed AM 10:23:04 EDT
>To: Jonathan Groll <lists at groll.co.za>, The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] New Intel Atom-based barebones system

>On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 04:16:53PM +0200, Jonathan Groll wrote:
>>So if you are thinking of trying my technique be aware of these
>>caveats.  For the record, I live in a country with 220V mains.
>
>Interesting. For some reason I thought that .za was 240 like .uk and .au.
>
>However, the UK is now 230 volts (we'll call it that, but it's really 240),
>and Oz really is 240. :-)

At $WORK we just finished rebuilding our data center (6 full size Dell racks, with three relay racks and two Symmetra cabinets), and when we went to put the racks back in place (after re-running all the power lines), we were suprised to find that half our servers were running on 220V, not 110. Auto-switching PS worked out great, allowed us to save on PDU hardware, but it was a bit of a suprise.

$WORK is in USA, BTW.

Lionel