Topic: what should I wear to work in the server room (Read 967 times)

go to work naked is cheaper

are you trolling? you want to wear a fireman suite? just go in naked or wearing light cloths and do what you have to do and leave <.<

I've worked in many hot server rooms.  As long as there is air flow (doesn't need to be cooled air) you can work quite comfortably in light clothing.

The human temperature control system (sweating) is so awesome it let us rule the animal kingdom and become king of the world. 

 Should really cool things down in there

If you work naked and they look at your junk can you claim sexual harassment? lol

Might as well work naked. If somebody asks you where are your clothes, just look at the directly into their eyes and say: "I sacrificed my clothes to my lord, Catman"

If your "server room" is 99F it's not a server room. It's a room that you put servers in. Get yourself a CRAC and lower your temps to around 50F and you can call it a server room.

FTFY lol. Especially with those temps going on in a server room.

"It puts the hasher in the basket."

What kind of sever room is this?  Alarm bells ring (metaphorically speaking) when the temperature gets above 75F in our server room.  No way on earth would they let it approach 99F.

This is hands down the most useful thread I've come across in the last 10 minutes.

Doctor's Note:
For medical reasons this man must work naked at all times.

Fair enough... but perhaps slip on a pair of boxers just so you don't distract your co-workers?  Not polyester ones, they're too hot.  Maybe that activewear materal mentioned above.

Thong.

Yes, my hypothalamus was under developed. 

I worked in my garage naked all the time with lot of water... but at work they said I have to wear cloth even with my medical condition.  Even with a doctor's note, they would not let me work without clothes on.

For wearing in an well designed server room (a zip up sweater on one side and using the sweater around your waist on the other)

Very hard to tell......BUT if a question like that needs to be asked in seriousness....and if said server room is 99 degrees F on the cold aisle....you have a serious problem on your hands. A well designed server room needs to have a cold side and a hot side (intake/exhaust) think of it as a giant PC case you can walk into. Similar airflow dynamics apply in a much more macro-sized scale.

Simply put, coldest where the air is being sucked in from, hot with some serious ventilation taking the air out. But damn 99 degrees.....get some some bacon and eggs crack em open right on the cases and get fryin. The hardware itself will be MUCH hotter than 99 degrees.

Like Dogie, I'm not sure if this was a serious question or not -- but just in case it was:

Background:

I have a family member with a medical condition (which I won't try to remember how to spell) that basically amounts to "his brain doesn't regulate his body's temperature very well."  So he has to be very careful about getting heat stroke, dehydration, stuff like that.  He described it to me saying it was basically like he's just missing the part of his brain that normally would tell us: "Hey, we're thirsty, go drink some water!" or "Okay, this room is REALLY hot, we need to sweat more and drop our blood pressure and try to cool off."  It's apparently a pretty serious condition; I've seen him at holidays playing basketball, looking normal one minute...and then a half hour later he looked like he was on the verge of death or something.  Fortunately he has a very loving wife who he asks to "keep an eye on him" at times like this...but...scary, you know?

So I'm probably more likely than others to take this question seriously, since I know there could be a serious reason you're asking it -- and since he works on old cars, he runs into this problem sometimes working in his garage during the hot summer months.  And so he started looking for exactly what gallery2000 called it "a cool suit."  And that's actually what it was called, I think -- maybe it might be "cooling suits," but it's the same kind of language.  Basically it is just a special kind of fiber that has a couple different layers and it's supposed to aid in evaporation and make sweating "more efficient" in cooling you off.  He used to have to order that stuff off the Internet, and it came in like 2 colors, lol, and it never really fit right, and was expensive as all hell.


Fortunately, you've probably *seen* this kind of material in the past and not even realized it--because in recent years it's being used for football (both the international and US version), basketball, and other sports...and particularly for runners/joggers.   You don't have to buy it online anymore, and it's not expensive at all.  I actually saw a sale at Wal-mart maybe 6 months ago and we grabbed a few shirts/shorts for him because it was maybe $9.99 for each; they just called it some dumb name like "High Tech Activewear" or whatever, but the smaller print on the tag said it "aided in the body's natural cooling" and blah blah blah, I think I'm probably going *way* too much in detail and answering WAY more than you actually needed, because the part inside my brain that should say "Shut up you're talking too much" apparently doesn't regulate my rate of speech very well. :)

tl;dr:  They sell it everywhere now, it's not very expensive; I know Target and Walmart carry it in the men's activewear/sportswear sections; it looks like anything else but if you feel it you'll be able to tell it's 2 layers of very, very fine mesh material.  Also, you can look at the label and see what materials are used:  normally I wouldn't want to work out in something made of polyester or other artificial materials, since they tend to get very hot...but this stuff will feel very cool to the touch and be made of *entirely* artificial stuff, no cotton or anything like that.  (I think it was like 30% nylon, 30% polyester, 20% rayon, 20% lycra ... some crazy combo of stuff you'd normally not want to wear in hot weather.)  The brand I've seen sold at Wal-mart and Target was "Under Armour," if you're having trouble finding it.

So if this wasn't a joke, and you actually wanted some info, then there you go.  If it was a joke, then...there you go, anyway.   :)

Someone insert that GI-JOE "Knowing is half the battle" youtube clip here, please and thank you...and I believe our work here is finished. :)

Back in my GPU days my garage would reach 115F easily.  I wore just my boxers and tried not to stay in there too long.

Is... is this a serious question?