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Re: [LUG] (Non-Linux Topic) Daisy chaining power-supplies?

 

Simon Avery wrote:

> 
> A "basic" modern psu is about 450-500watt now to cope with hungry 
> processors and fancy graphics cards, and should have a load to spare in 
> a more modest system with a bunch of drives.

I heard somewhere that server farms now run DC power buses to the racks
 so that you can have the enormous (redundant) PSU's away from the
processing power for heat removal, maintenance and space saving.


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