Craddock, Chris wrote:
But earthquake is a possibility, not a large one and our building is
short with the machine room underground.
I would be a lot more concerned about a subterranean machine room than
an earthquake. Water has an uncanny knack for finding the lowest point
as any owner of a basement would know. Its hard to flood anything on the
2nd floor without knocking the head off a fire sprinkler :-)
Chris,
You answered your self how it is possible to "drown" equipment on second
floor. Not sprinklers (not existent in serious server rooms), but fire
hoses. Firemen can soak (wet ?) the machines during regular fire action,
on another floor.
I'm not talking about theorethical possibility, I'm talking about real
case. It *happened* once upon a time. AFAIR over 3 days of total outage
+ manay other troubles.
--
Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
P.S. It wasn't my company and I won't disclose company name.
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