Hard Drive in the Freezer

[nageov3t]

about 10 years ago, I worked in a really crappy data center... they used half-rack Cobalt RaQ servers, stacked back to back (one full row of servers on the front half of the rack, and another full row on the back half)

amazingly, they crashed all the time because of overheating. we were instructed by the guys running the data center that whenever one crashed, just let it sit open on the air vent in the floor for 5-10 minutes and power it back on.

the freezer trick worked once, and any time after that, whenever we had a seriously fucked up drive, the DC head would always tell us to put it in the freezer. in the 2-3 years I was there, though, it literally only ever worked once.

 

[Kaido]

amazingly, they crashed all the time because of overheating. we were instructed by the guys running the data center that whenever one crashed, just let it sit open on the air vent in the floor for 5-10 minutes and power it back on.

The way that hardware has changed with virtualization constantly amazes me. I got to help on a neat project a year or so ago that involved a pair of virtual servers & a SAN. That was it. PBX was virtualized, both DC's were virtualized (which was scary to me at the time, but apparently works awesome), everything. The whole stack didn't even fill up the half-rack, and yet was more powerful than all of the sister branches. Phenomenal cosmic power, itty-bitty living space Not to mention that Sandisk just announced 4 Terabyte SAS Enterprise SSD's:

http://www.sandisk.com/about-sandis...-unveils-worlds-first-4tb-enterprise-sas-ssd/

That, and for the bigger projects, you can get 10TB SSD cards that have 6GB/s read rates:

http://www.solidstateworks.com/ioDrive-Octal.asp

I've been anxious to get my hands on the new SuperServer from Supermicro....the chassis supports up to 6TB of RAM & quad 15-core Xeon chips, giving you 60 cores:

http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/4U/4048/SYS-4048B-TRFT.cfm

Which is really 120 cores with Hyperthreading:

http://ark.intel.com/products/75251/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E7-4890-v2-37_5M-Cache-2_80-GHz

Be still, my heart :wub:

 

[angminas]

Butter is the one thing that I always think about when it comes to "how did they think of this" thousands of years ago. Who thought "Hey, if I sit here and stir (or shake) this milk for hours on end, it will eventually solidify, and creamy goodness will be the result."?

Put milk in a drinking skin, ride horse all day

Or cow's milk. The guy that discovered cow's milk, what the hell was he doing? :'(

See calf suckling, crikey, there's food there

 

[nageov3t]

The way that hardware has changed with virtualization constantly amazes me. I got to help on a neat project a year or so ago that involved a pair of virtual servers & a SAN. That was it. PBX was virtualized, both DC's were virtualized (which was scary to me at the time, but apparently works awesome), everything. The whole stack didn't even fill up the half-rack, and yet was more powerful than all of the sister branches. Phenomenal cosmic power, itty-bitty living space Not to mention that Sandisk just announced 4 Terabyte SAS Enterprise SSD's:

http://www.sandisk.com/about-sandis...-unveils-worlds-first-4tb-enterprise-sas-ssd/

That, and for the bigger projects, you can get 10TB SSD cards that have 6GB/s read rates:

http://www.solidstateworks.com/ioDrive-Octal.asp

I've been anxious to get my hands on the new SuperServer from Supermicro....the chassis supports up to 6TB of RAM & quad 15-core Xeon chips, giving you 60 cores:

http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/4U/4048/SYS-4048B-TRFT.cfm

Which is really 120 cores with Hyperthreading:

http://ark.intel.com/products/75251/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E7-4890-v2-37_5M-Cache-2_80-GHz

Be still, my heart :wub:

it's kinda why I'm glad I got out of the data center field, tbh.

with newer hardware and operating systems, it feels like the local data centers don't need to field as big of a staff to be on-site to reboot servers, fix hardware problems, etc.

10 years ago, half my job was rebooting locked up servers and reinstalling Windows machines that were BSOD'ing.

 

[Kaido]

it's kinda why I'm glad I got out of the data center field, tbh.

with newer hardware and operating systems, it feels like the local data centers don't need to field as big of a staff to be on-site to reboot servers, fix hardware problems, etc.

10 years ago, half my job was rebooting locked up servers and reinstalling Windows machines that were BSOD'ing.

Yeah, seriously. My main job is over a couple hundred computers & users. It's more than a full-time job, but one person can handle the on-site stuff these days. That's amazing. As much as people gripe about computers and stuff, I rarely see a BSOD anymore or do much physical maintenance outside of spraying out dust bunnies.

 

[MWink]

I've tried this trick at least half a dozen times and I've only seen it possibly work once. It's definitely not something I'd count on working but it's usually worth a try.

 

[JTsyo]

Or cow's milk. The guy that discovered cow's milk, what the hell was he doing? :'(

Farmer's wife die during childbirth. Kid survives but of course there's no formula back then. What can he give the kid?