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What are the disadvantages of in row cooling in a data center?

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Question added by Abdul Hannan Rafee Siddiqui , General Manager , Advanced Technoloy Services
Date Posted: 2014/11/18
Salman Sarang
by Salman Sarang , Design Manager - Mechanical Engineering , Cenomi Centers

One of the biggest disadvantage of in-row cooling is the routing of chilled water/refrigerant piping within the DATA hall. However, there are smart system such as leak detection to identify threats due to leakages in nuisance.

Zaid Umer Farooqui
by Zaid Umer Farooqui , Head of Information Technology , English Biscuits Manufacturers PVT LTD

I think they suit the best for data center env provided that you have filled racks n large qty of servers. Still i prefer having a n+1 config

Mohamad Farran
by Mohamad Farran , Portfolio program manager , Markerstudy group

I can only think of2 situations where you should not use in-row cooling.... if the rack capacity is too low, in that case the high initial cost of multiple in-row cooling will not be justified or if the white space is too limited and cannot spare the extra space needed for the cooling units

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