On 9/17/2016 07:39, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/a-loud-sound-just-shut-down-a-banks-data-ce...
Releasing inert gas from fire suppression units that were over pressurized resulted in an extremely loud noise
My experience is only with in-specification systems (and only in tape libraries) but those tests were pretty loud. – causing cabinets
full of hard drives to vibrate – which got transmitted to the read – write heads of the drives.
My experiences were back in the days of washing-machine class disc drives and they were a 4-hour fire-wall away, but I don't remember them being impacted. (I can't believe that I was allowed to conduct a test with them running, but I don't remember shutting them down.) I wonder if orientation mattered--mine were all platters parallel to the floor, I wonder if the damaged ones were parallel to the wave front.
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.
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