I'm at the beginning stages of building a new house which will include an unfinished basement. I have a 42U Dell rack that is going in that basement. Eventually when I finish it, I want to build the ...

Otherwise, what continuum said. The rack will be bolted to the floor, and the server raised well above the ground. The outlets will be GFCI as well, just for safety's sake. It is a basement, after all ...

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The increasingly popular method of using a hard-drive partition to back up the OS, a few critical apps and configurations doesn't provide the slightest bit of protection against a catastrophic ...

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When that happens, the user can reinstall the OS and applications off the original disks. But replacing their data is likely to be expensive at best, perhaps impossible. Similarly, corrupted ...