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Liquid Cooling Can Prevent A Data Center Melt Down: Page 3 of 3

The other product is the Liquid Cooling Package (LCP). You hang the LCP on the side of a rack, or in some unused space inside a rack, and it works by using chilled water to cool air, which then blows horizontally in front of servers in the rack. The cool air gets drawn into the server cabinet, whether it's conventional or a case of blade servers, and drops the internal temperature of the box.

Liquid cooling may be coming of age, as processor complexity and speed, and disk rotational speed, continue to increase. You can spot the need if your servers start going into thermal overload. But thermal calculations are not easy (trust me on this one -- I found thermodynamics a nightmare many years ago). So the best thing to do would be to contact a manufacturer of a liquid cooling solution and get some expert evaluation in to the data center. If you need it, liquid cooling will take the heat off.

David Gabel has been testing and writing about computers for more than 25 years.