[rescue] Raised floor - first shots of installation...

[Mike Johnson]

Greg A. Woods [woods at weird.com] wrote:
 
> Not in my book!  Never hide cables under the floor, especially not a
> mess of data cables.  If you're 100% sure it can never get wet under
> there (either water, or something else, such as acid from a battery
> plant), then it's OK to put basic power distribution under a raised
> floor, but watch out for too much clutter accumulating.

At the one place I worked that had a raised floor, everything was run
under there.  There were moisture sensors all around the place, though,
so we always knew if there was even the slightest hint of water.  All
our UPSes were above floor, though, usually under the tables.  It made
for a pretty neat above floor.

That said, it was an absolute -mess- underfloor.  We had cat 5,
thickwire, thinwire, all sorts of different power cables/connections
(the server room was built to hold four early 80's VAXen, each of which
were gigantic and took, I think, three-phase power) and it was nearly 
impossible to trace a cable.

I -much- prefer overhead cable runs.  It's a lot easier to trace, and a
lot easier to change.

Mike
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