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 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. -- Ken Chase - m...@sizone.org Guelph Canada
