[191483] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: One more thing to watch out for at data centers - fire drills
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (hcb@netcases.net)
Sat Sep 17 13:20:06 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2016 09:27:26 -0400
From: hcb@netcases.net
To: nanog@nanog.org
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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
> 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
Another unexpected result when we had an all-out Halon test: thick fog,
apparently from cold gas and somewhat humid air. I'm glad to have been
watching through windows. Visibility in the room dropped to zero.
