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Sun Puts Data Center Through 6.7 Earthquake

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the shake-your-money-maker dept.

An anonymous reader sent in a video clip showing Sun experimenting with shoving a data center through a simulated 6.7 Earthquake. Everything stays running, but some power cords came out and some screws worked loose. It's still kind of neat to see a bunch of racks shake like a polaroid.

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  1. Re:Hard drives?? by Remloc · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Hard drives are not as fragile as you might think. I was running our tiny company's "data center" (3 consumer '486s, two HDs each, screwed down to a metal rack bolted to the wall) 35 miles from Northridge during the 6.75 Northridge quake.
    Didn't lose a single drive.

  2. Re:Old. by danw5k1 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Real computers have more than one power cord.