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Oh man. Once, when I was a young padawan doing maintenance by myself on one of our three racks in a colocation DC, I dropped a 1U server from about 2m/6ft high.
by jtwaleson 4y ago
Oh man. Once, when I was a young padawan doing maintenance by myself on one of our three racks in a colocation DC, I dropped a 1U server from about 2m/6ft high. It was scary as hell. While trying to grab it I hit the off button on one of the other servers, causing an outage for about 50 customers. What's more, it fell on the floor and just missed the SAN with the spinning disk array at the bottom of the rack. Everything was fine, including the fallen server, but shit, that was stupid. The vibration alone could have caused a lot of data corruption.
- egwor 4y agoI’ve had old drives that a bit of a whack on the side have given them the kick to start working again (such that you can get data off)
- jacquesm 4y agoOld grease, you probably broke the sticking just enough for the motor to overcome it and then after a bit of turning the grease warms up enough that it will liquify.