One more thing to watch out for at data centers - fire drills
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 – 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
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 – 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.
A quick comment: for the N2 systems we built in our datacenters we added mufflers to reduce the noise which raised the price for the system by only 5%. Totally worth it. Yet many datacenters do not add them. -Sascha
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