Yup. 2014 was the last GS noise destruction incident AFAIK https://www.theregister.com/2014/02/04/loud_data_centre_gas_release_sounds_harm_disks/
On Sun, 15 Nov 2020, 6:25 pm Matt Perkins, <[email protected]> wrote: > It's not the first time this has happened at GSU. It's caused by the very > loud noise that is generated when the inergen gas is released. It causes > errors on spinning disks that quickly fill up their spare sector table > while trying to write during the discharge. It usually only effects > servers beneath the nozels so that's likely why it only effected tabcorp. > > It happend in the AAPT suite on level 4 a few years back when a belt on > an air handling unit failed and smoked up setting off the fire system. I > remember being there and looking into the face of many broken men on that > day. RAID does not help when all your disks die at once. > > I have equipment in level 2 4 and 6 at GSU and did not hear about the 7 > November incident so perhaps it was just one private suite. > > Matt > > > On 15/11/20 5:58 pm, Christopher Hawker wrote: > > I came across this article, relating to the Tabcorp outage on 7 November - > claims the fire suppression system in the hall at Global Switch was > activated and damaged servers, which is why Tabcorp was offline for so > long. GS also claims that Tabcorp was the only affected customer. Did > anyone receive a fire alarm activation alert? > > What potentially would have triggered the activation and discharge? > > > https://www.itnews.com.au/news/global-switch-says-no-fire-in-tabcorp-data-centre-incident-555661 > > Thanks, > CH > > _______________________________________________ > AusNOG mailing > [email protected]http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog > > -- > /* Matt Perkins > Direct 02 8916 8101 Spectrum Networks Ptd. Ltd. > Office 1300 133 299 [email protected] > ABN 66 090 112 913 Level 6, 350 George Street Sydney 2000 > */ > > _______________________________________________ > AusNOG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog >
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