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

2016-09-18 Thread Stephen Satchell
On 09/17/2016 02:43 PM, Larry Sheldon wrote: My experiences were back in the days of washing-machine class disc drives and they were a 4-hour fire-wall away, but I don't remember them being impacted. (I can't believe that I was allowed to conduct a test with them running, but I don't remember

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

2016-09-17 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 9/17/2016 07:39, 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 My experience is

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

2016-09-17 Thread 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, h...@netcases.net said: >On 2016-09-17 08:39, Suresh

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

2016-09-17 Thread hcb
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

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

2016-09-17 Thread Sascha Pollok
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

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

2016-09-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
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