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| The BIG EEVblog Server Fire |
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| jh15:
Just put the servers in rice. A few days before this, I heard to put something in rice on the NCIS tv show, a rerun. Now I know where most people got it from. NO! Best part is about 13 mins in. |
| EEVblog:
--- Quote from: Syntax Error on April 09, 2021, 09:13:33 am ---@eevblog : Welcome back :) --- Quote from: james_s on April 08, 2021, 05:33:27 pm ---The pictures Dave posted look like a random light industrial park of the sort of place my friend's machine shop is in, there's even a sports bar & grill in one of the units. Looks like the genset has to be in the same space, there isn't anywhere else to put it. --- End quote --- I agree. I was wondering how water ended up on the racks. And there I was thinking the backup genny was in a shipping container some 100 feet from the main building. Just in case it caught fire. Nar, that is extra rental space. Maybe not odd in Utah, but certainly odd looking in the Uk, the power control boxes, transformer and what I assume is the deisel fuelling point, are not caged in collision resistant fencing - or even a crash carrier. All it would take is a truck driver choking on a hotdog from the grill... and back to square one. Morale of the story from both WebNX and OVH is, backup power systems are highly flammable! Just let the power go off and rebuild the filesystems, not the entire data center. --- End quote --- I can confirm that the generator was only meters away from some of the racks in the same room. And that no servers were damaged due to the fire, it was all water. |
| madires:
Diesel generator and racks in the same room? That's insane for many reasons! |
| SilverSolder:
--- Quote from: madires on April 10, 2021, 12:12:50 pm ---Diesel generator and racks in the same room? That's insane for many reasons! --- End quote --- It does sound a bit how'ya doin'... |
| bd139:
I think that transcends that and into “what the hell were they thinking?” territory.... Suitable ORA book attached :-DD |
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