Re: Ear protection

[Bryan Holloway <bholloway () pavlovmedia com>]

On 9/23/15, 7:53 AM, "NANOG on behalf of Joe Greco"
<nanog-bounces () nanog org on behalf of jgreco () ns sol net> wrote:

> > Maybe I've always listened to my music to loud and spend the bulk of
> > time
> > via ssh, but I've never felt a need for hearing protection in a DC, is
> > this
> > generally an issue for people?
>
> Depends on how long and how noisy.
>
> As I've gotten older, I find loud noise in general is less tolerable,
> so I've taken to always keeping a pair of earplugs with me.  It makes
> being around loud music, etc., much more enjoyable.
>
> Long term exposure to noise is widely considered to be a hazard, but
> walking into an average data center for an hour once a month is
> probably not that risky.
>
> ... JG

Depends on the type of "noise" too.

Datacenters generate (more or less) white noise, which is particularly
harmful long-term to the cilia in your ears because it excites all of them
all of the time. A loud datacenter is much worse than a loud rock band,
IMO.

I personally use Bose noise-canceling headphones.