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A loud sound emitted by a fire alarm system has destroyed the hard drives of a Swedish data center, downing Nasdaq operations across Northern Europe.
The incident took place in the early hours of Wednesday, April 19, and was caused by a gas-based fire alarm system that are typically deployed in data centers because of their ability to put out fires without destroying non-burnt equipment.
These systems work by releasing inert gas at high speeds, a mechanism usually accompanied by a loud whistle-like sound. With non-calibrated systems, this sound can get very loud, a big no-no in data centers, where loud sounds are known to affect performance, shut down, or even destroy hard drives.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 23 2018, @01:33AM
you don't work on anything important
Almost all of the stuff produced on this planet is NOT Mil-spec.
In that same facility that I mentioned, there was commercial grade stuff being produced at the same time that military grade goods were being produced.
...well, until NAFTA came along and all of the non-military stuff was sent to the maquiladora in Tijuana.
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