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In my experience it's common when there's a full power down of a large data center like this. In 2013 the company I was working at had an unplanned power outage
by SteveNuts 5y ago
In my experience it's common when there's a full power down of a large data center like this. In 2013 the company I was working at had an unplanned power outage which took out 200 spinning drives, and 18
servers. I think the motors in the drives are fine running at constant speed but don't have the juice to spin up from a dead stop.
I remember IBM was renting private planes to get us replacement hardware from around the country (we were a very large customer).
- jbergens 5y agoA very long time ago I worked for a medium sized company and there was a power outage. The servers were in a room in our building but they had ups power. The problem was that the ups's were broken/malfunctioning and the servers needed to do a disk check after an unplanned reboot. It took hours before we could work again even though most drives survived. This was also before git so we could not reach the central version control system and could not commit any code. I think all code and workspaces were on servers that was not up yet.
- lamontcg 5y agoI worked at Amazon from 2001-2006 and there were a couple of datacenter-wide power outages during my time and there was always some machines that never came back. It is just a numbers game. When you have thousands of servers affected some small fraction just don't survive the forced power cycle.