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crzywolf:


--- Quote ---You mean like the ones from APC?  Geez... I wish I could find one for ~$45.

I've used the APC gear before at our colo and it was great.  Machine ever hang for some reason?  Just log into the power bar (we had the one with an Ethernet port) and tell it to cycle the power to the port for that machine. 

They work great, they're just expensive; last time I looked at any on eBay they were still ~$200 a pop.
 
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I just looked on ebay and I can not find any at the $45 price anymore . about three weeks ago I had no trouble  finding them , which is one of the reasons I decided to put off buying one .

bleargh:


--- Quote from: crzywolf on June 22, 2007, 04:29:22 pm ---I just looked on ebay and I can not find any at the $45 price anymore . about three weeks ago I had no trouble  finding them , which is one of the reasons I decided to put off buying one .

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I just checked myself, but couldn't find one for less than a few hundred bucks. :(

If you ever run across these at a reasonable price, please PM me to let me know; I could use several but can't afford them at ~$500 a pop.

Green Giant:

Is there a reason you would need server power strips.  I can't imagine having enough equipment that would require a server power strip.  They are extremely heavy duty designed for massive power draws.

I used to work on servers at HP, and most of the time we just used regular power strips.  The separate switches per input are not necessary or used.  You would need at least 8 blade enclosures with 20 blades per enclosure to actually need one of those power strips.  Basically about 300 procs sucking power through the same supply.

bleargh:


--- Quote from: Green Giant on June 22, 2007, 05:03:16 pm ---Is there a reason you would need server power strips.  I can't imagine having enough equipment that would require a server power strip.  They are extremely heavy duty designed for massive power draws.

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Me, I'm all for having the "remote port on/off" feature.  Considering that I'm a few hours away from my servers, the ability to cycle the power to any one port remotely is worth it.

For a MAME cab, though, I agree... it would be overkill.  Not so much that its because its a "server" strip, but just because I can't think of any reason I'd want one in my cab.  I'm sure you could jury-rig one to function similarly to a smart-strip, but that'd be a whole lot of extra effort to script it just so that things turned on/off with your PC...

Green Giant:

What servers are you using?  I know HP servers can be power cycled and worked on remotely over the internet.  I know dell has a very crude version of this.  Not sure about IBM.

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