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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.
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Never use "etc." -- it makes people think there is more where there is not
or that there is not space to list it all, etc.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 22 2018, @10:02PM (2 children)
...as can the wrong type of handheld fire extinguisher.
At a place I worked, there was a full-height rack that contained a test fixture.
It caught fire and someone from the Test Department grabbed a dry chemical extinguisher and put out the fire.
The stuff in a dry chemical extinguisher absorbs water and is corrosive.
We ended up scrapping the unit and building another.
...and a CO2 extinguisher isn't necessarily the proper choice either.
The sudden shock of coldness can damage some stuff.
The following week, the entire plant got demos on fire extinguishers and their proper selection and use.
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday April 22 2018, @10:38PM (1 child)
I see that you don't work on anything important, then. Thermal shock chambers are a thing in the real-world.
(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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