A Loud Sound Shut Down a Bank's Data Center for 10 Hours

Re:A Loud Sound Shut Down a Bank's Data Center for 10 Hours by threepipeproblm on Sunday September 11, 2016 @03:56PM (#12475309)

This didn't surprise me, only because the video of the guy screaming at the hard drive has been stuck in my head for years -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:A Loud Sound Shut Down a Bank's Data Center for 10 Hours by okket on Sunday September 11, 2016 @04:01PM (#12475345)

"the guy" is Brendan Gregg, you might know him from his work on Linux performance tools.

http://www.brendangregg.com/linuxperf.html

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:A Loud Sound Shut Down a Bank's Data Center for 10 Hours by nickpsecurity on Sunday September 11, 2016 @06:28PM (#12476062)

I only knew him from screaming at hard disks. Now I know he was behind some great work on performance tools. Thanks for the link. :)

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:A Loud Sound Shut Down a Bank's Data Center for 10 Hours by godzillabrennus on Sunday September 11, 2016 @04:07PM (#12475389)

Thanks for that! If seen this years ago but your right I had never forgotten it.

Such a shame that Sun was acquired by Oracle.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:A Loud Sound Shut Down a Bank's Data Center for 10 Hours by michaelcampbell on Sunday September 11, 2016 @08:56PM (#12476525)

> Such a shame that Sun was acquired by Oracle.

For many reasons, but what makes you mention it here; what's the relevance?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:A Loud Sound Shut Down a Bank's Data Center for 10 Hours by godzillabrennus on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @11:56PM (#12494152)

The man screaming into the servers worked for Sun.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:A Loud Sound Shut Down a Bank's Data Center for 10 Hours by michaelcampbell on Thursday September 15, 2016 @12:08PM (#12507299)

Ah, I see; I missed that bit. Thanks.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:A Loud Sound Shut Down a Bank's Data Center for 10 Hours by toomuchtodo on Sunday September 11, 2016 @04:05PM (#12475375)

Vibration is the enemy of spinning disk!

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:A Loud Sound Shut Down a Bank's Data Center for 10 Hours by astrodust on Sunday September 11, 2016 @07:39PM (#12476274)

I remember trying to burn CD-Rs back in the day when 1x burners were still thousands of dollars and there was a club underneath the office doing a sound check at the same time. The vibrations would toast every burn, which was annoying since it took about forty minutes to burn each one.

Shades of trying to do laser holography where everything has to remain perfectly inert for seconds on end.

[ Parent | on HN ]