One more thing to watch out for at data centers - fire drills

[math at sizone.org (Ken Chase)]

All of these discussions sounds infinitely safe for humans.

Servers and network gear is replaceable. Sounds like the failure was not one of
DC mismanagement but human safety errors.

/kc


On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 09:27:26AM -0400, hcb at netcases.net said:
  >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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Ken Chase - math at sizone.org Guelph Canada