[AusNOG] Fire System Activation @ GS Sydney

[Simon Sharwood]

Yup. 2014 was the last GS noise destruction incident AFAIK

https://www.theregister.com/2014/02/04/loud_data_centre_gas_release_sounds_harm_disks/

On Sun, 15 Nov 2020, 6:25 pm Matt Perkins, <matt at spectrum.com.au> wrote:

> It's not the first time this has happened at GSU.  It's caused by the very
> loud noise that is generated when the inergen gas is released. It causes
> errors on spinning disks that quickly fill up their spare sector table
> while trying to write during the discharge.  It usually only effects
> servers beneath the nozels so that's likely why it only effected tabcorp.
>
> It happend in the  AAPT suite on level 4 a few years back when a belt on
> an air handling unit failed and smoked up setting off the fire system.  I
> remember being there and looking into the face of many broken men on that
> day.  RAID does not help when all your disks die at once.
>
> I have equipment in level 2 4 and 6 at GSU and did not hear about the 7
> November incident so perhaps it was just one private suite.
>
> Matt
>
>
> On 15/11/20 5:58 pm, Christopher Hawker wrote:
>
> I came across this article, relating to the Tabcorp outage on 7 November -
> claims the fire suppression system in the hall at Global Switch was
> activated and damaged servers, which is why Tabcorp was offline for so
> long. GS also claims that Tabcorp was the only affected customer. Did
> anyone receive a fire alarm activation alert?
>
> What potentially would have triggered the activation and discharge?
>
>
> https://www.itnews.com.au/news/global-switch-says-no-fire-in-tabcorp-data-centre-incident-555661
>
> Thanks,
> CH
>
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