One more thing to watch out for at data centers - fire drills

[ops.lists at gmail.com (Suresh Ramasubramanian)]

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/a-loud-sound-just-shut-down-a-banks-data-center-for-10-hours?utm_source=bbcfb

Releasing inert gas from fire suppression units that were over pressurized resulted in an extremely loud noise ? causing cabinets full of hard drives to vibrate ? which got transmitted to the read ? write heads of the drives.

Amazing sort of outage + data loss, and this time the physical security plant chief gets to write up the RCA.

--srs