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<p>One of the guys in my office just found this.</p>
<p>a demonstration on effect of noise on a hard drive in a DC (done in an ammusing way)</p>
<p>watch it through.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4</a></p>
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<p>Cheers</p>
<p>Matthew</p>
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<p>On 14-01-2014 06:41, Alex Samad - Yieldbroker wrote:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #1f497d;">Who pays for this ? If you were in the suite and lost 20-40 drives, would insurance cover it and if not do you have any claim on GS if it was done in error. Or is it a case of you know the risks, buyer beware. <!-- o ignored --></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span>I’d love to know if any Server or Storage Vendors have any meantime to failure reports based on exposure to different fire suppression systems, very interesting Read / Topic !!!<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: black;">James Braunegg<br /></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: black;">P:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: black;"> 1300 769 972 | <strong>M:</strong> 0488 997 207 | <strong>D:</strong> (03) 9751 7616<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: black;">E:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><a href="mailto:james.braunegg@micron21.com"><span style="font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: black;">james.braunegg@micron21.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: black;"> | <strong>ABN:</strong> 12 109 977 666 <br /><strong>W:</strong> <a href="http://www.micron21.com/ip-transit"><span style="color: black;">www.micron21.com/ip-transit</span></a> <strong>T:</strong> @micron21<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span>-----Original Message-----<br /> From: AusNOG [<a href="mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net">mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net</a>] On Behalf Of John Edwards<br /> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 10:06 PM<br /> To: <a href="mailto:ausnog@lists.ausnog.net">ausnog@lists.ausnog.net</a><br /> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Global switch Level 4 Hard disk's<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span>On 13 Jan 2014, at 2:00 pm, Brad Gould <<a href="mailto:bradley@internode.com.au">bradley@internode.com.au</a>> wrote:<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span>> Sudden pressure increase or temperature drop with a gas dump?<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span>The temperature will drop significantly - more than you could effect with a block of ice. In a data centre, the air temp will be back to normal in one cycle, so humans may not notice the difference.<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span>Disks are spinning at 10K rpm, operating at 55 degrees. It’s not surprising that they would fail with a sudden drop in temperature. 3.5” SATA drives are going to be hit harder than 2.5” SAS drives, simply because they are bigger and will contract further.<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span>Pressure increase on a gas drop will be negligible, and most hard drives are effectively sealed anyway.<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span>Someone hit a hot hard drive performing a transfer with a CO2 fire extinguisher, and let us know the result :)<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
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