Graham Campbell wrote:
I am an old-timer and remember the big old mainframes, especially the CDC 6600 and CDC 7600. These were cooled with circulating refrigerant. An undisciplined power outage definitely caused problems due to spiking temps. CDC did a study that showed a dramatic increase in failures about 7 days (as I recall) after a power failure.
I am not that expert on this one, but isn't cooling with a refrigerant similar to a car engine? The temperature of the refrigerant is going up because it stopped circulating?
But most of modern PCs are air-cooled like old Porsches or VW Beatles, and you *were* able to cool down overheated engines by switching off the engine.
If a modern car overheats, you should not switch it off immediatly because of the refrigerant.
-- Regards Markus Huber
