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speaking_in_tech Greg Knieriemen podcast enterprise This week on our tech-cast, Ed and Greg are joined by Podcast Idol Gabe Chapman to discuss HP snagging Samsung printers, Dell layoffs and big bangs. Our special guest this week is Mike Dvorkin, Distinguished Engineer at Cisco - Co-founder and Chief Scientist for Insieme …

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  1. streaky

    Loud Noises

    I doubt it's loud noise causing a failure, more likely to be the pressure differential and it is extremely common with fire suppression systems in datacenters, it happens literally all the time.

    People always reference the Seimens testing when discussing failures caused by suppression systems which blames the noise but testing generally only shows temporary reversible performance degradation.

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      Re: Loud Noises

      Agreed it's the pressure differential. One of our major customers had a similar incident where the fire suppressant system caused a huge pressure differential and they lost hundreds of drives...

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