TexRoadkill said:
Looking clean. My console is a mess of wires underneath. I figure once I get most of the stuff I plan on getting and figure out how I want it permanently wired I'll start tieing stuff up. For now it's a jungle down there.
heh-heh.
I remember one data center for a large global bank in NYC, that had to be gutted, and converted from a mainframe data center to a LAN data center. All the big iron was to leave, and replaced with servers, routers, and network switches.
Seemed like an easy task, until my crew pulled up the raised white tiles (data center floor). Sad. 30 years of wires in there, and it was obvious when something went bad, it was dropped into the floor and simply replaced. For 30 years.
The floor was 3' deep, and a few of the tiles weren't level, thats how much wire was in the floor. I guess after the first 5 years of knot-making, they gave up and just dropped and replaced instead of unsnaking the cables.
Anyway, was easy to fit. After all the big iron was removed, and the white tile was removed (20,500 sq ft data center), we rented 8 chain saws, for 8 guys, and had a wire cutting party. Two per corner, cutting away from each other, until we met in the middle of the walls somewhere.
Only took 4 days of cutting to "disconnect" everything.
Then after all this cutting, we removed the bulk of it with forklifts. Union fork lift operators. heh-heh.
That took another week.
But, I was now 90 days ahead of schedule.
Tex, need a chainsaw?
