[191482] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: One more thing to watch out for at data centers - fire drills
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sascha Pollok)
Sat Sep 17 13:16:36 2016
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From: Sascha Pollok <sp@iphh.net>
To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>, <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2016 15:16:33 +0200
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> 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.
A quick comment: for the N2 systems we built in our datacenters we added
mufflers to reduce the noise which raised the price for the system by only
5%. Totally worth it. Yet many datacenters do not add them.
-Sascha
