Allah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoMechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster!threadreaderapp.comexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up175arrow-down121file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squaredeath_to_carrots@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 months agoWell, if your infrastructure is mission critical, then you need one more as spare. In this case a new one a qarter mile to the side with a redundant power supply. Mission control could be smack in the center between the launchpads. Of course someone®©™ has to make sure, that the whole facility is only utilized in such a way that n-1 launchpads is considered 100% usage. Rant/advice over from someone working in a data center, where spare machines are always in use, because someone©®™ said moar power is more important then reliability.
minus-squaremipadaitu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoWhich is great, but as soon as one tower is out, then you’re back to N towers.
minus-squaredeath_to_carrots@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoWell, N towers are supposed to be enough. That’s the reason you should have N+1 in the first place. Also this assumes that you can repair/replace a tower faster than it takes on average a tower to fail.
Well, if your infrastructure is mission critical, then you need one more as spare.
In this case a new one a qarter mile to the side with a redundant power supply. Mission control could be smack in the center between the launchpads.
Of course someone®©™ has to make sure, that the whole facility is only utilized in such a way that n-1 launchpads is considered 100% usage.
Rant/advice over from someone working in a data center, where spare machines are always in use, because someone©®™ said moar power is more important then reliability.
Which is great, but as soon as one tower is out, then you’re back to N towers.
Well, N towers are supposed to be enough. That’s the reason you should have N+1 in the first place.
Also this assumes that you can repair/replace a tower faster than it takes on average a tower to fail.