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Re: One more thing to watch out for at data centers - fire drills
From: hcb () netcases net
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2016 09:27:26 -0400
On 2016-09-17 08:39, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/a-loud-sound-just-shut-down-a-banks-data-center-for-10-hours?utm_source=bbcfb Releasing inert gas from fire suppression units that were over pressurized resulted in an extremely loud noise – causing cabinets full of hard drives to vibrate – which got transmitted to the read – write heads of the drives. Amazing sort of outage + data loss, and this time the physical security plant chief gets to write up the RCA. --srs
Another unexpected result when we had an all-out Halon test: thick fog, apparently from cold gas and somewhat humid air. I'm glad to have been watching through windows. Visibility in the room dropped to zero.
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- One more thing to watch out for at data centers - fire drills Suresh Ramasubramanian (Sep 17)
- Re: One more thing to watch out for at data centers - fire drills Sascha Pollok (Sep 17)
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- Re: One more thing to watch out for at data centers - fire drills hcb (Sep 17)
- Re: One more thing to watch out for at data centers - fire drills Ken Chase (Sep 17)
- Re: One more thing to watch out for at data centers - fire drills Larry Sheldon (Sep 17)
- Re: One more thing to watch out for at data centers - fire drills Stephen Satchell (Sep 18)