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One more thing to watch out for at data centers - fire drills
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists () gmail com>
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2016 18:09:31 +0530
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
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