Yay, EEVBlog is back
Interestingly the second datacenter fire that affected services that i use in only a couple of months. According to statistics the services i use should be save now for some time :p
Anyway, always interesting to see what can happen. Makes me glad that my employer has definitly not skimped of the equipment and setup of our internal datacenter.
Our internal datacenter is quite small, we only have 26 Racks. But it is set up very well: redundant cooling, redundant power (one leg UPS and generator protected). All the critical components are in separated rooms with at least 2 firewalls (the brick kind
) separating them.
The room with the racks and the UPS room are equipped with a Novec fire suppression system. The generator room, on the other hand, is not. It was explained that it was, first, not really needed, since the generator has its own room, the fuel has its own room, and the datacenter itself is two rooms away. And secondly, misfires of the required early detection system might trigger on the slightest leaks of the generator. And refilling the Novec would supposedly cost around 20.000 Euro
This kind of setup is expensive, but at least for us, it seems to be worth it: We had not a single outage beyond faults of individual servers. Yet...