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A Server That Can Fall From the Sky, and Survive
alphadogg writes "A rugged server from NCS Technologies introduced on Friday can withstand drops, will work in extreme temperatures and can be deployed via parachute into crisis areas or war zones if needed. The Bunker XRV-5241 is a 1U rack server designed for organizations such as the military and first responders that need servers in rugged environments. The server has been tested to meet U.S. Department of Defense specifications for environmental, temperature and shock requirements." Hope they drop some hardened screens, too, to help with setup.
Needs pictures of the inside so we can see what makes it so rugged, but not even the manufacturer website has internal pictures, and the outside is just a generic 1U server.
sounds like you need to bolt stuff down or upgrade your girlfriend to the 2.0 model.
when one of these things accidentally drops on someone below and the official report is death from "server overhead."
Bah, only +50 Celsius. Quite useless in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and Siria...
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The problem is parachuting in the nerdy IT guy to set it up plus his supply of Code Red Mountain Dew and Doritos. So far, tests of their survivability has been dismal.
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This wouldn't work for me, because the only thing that keeps some of my servers from misbehaving is the fact that they know I can drop-kick it down the stairwell if it acts up one more time.
Back in the nineties, when I was younger and working for a large computer supplier, they already have their PC (could be a small server as well) ruggerized to survive drop from helicopter platforms, mosquitoes invasions and chopped mosquitoes jam in cooling fan intakes and so one. Well, maybe it wasn't supporting extreme temperatures, I don't remember, that a few decades ago and yes, they were designed for the exactly same customer.
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They should totally make a movie about this. They could call it Skyfall.
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I see fans and a more-or-less standard case.
So fucking what? Build it like a tactical radio, with a cast. finned case with no vents and passive cooling then I'll be impressed.
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Me too. Sounds perfect for a geek with a small house and young children.
They can drop it from the sky with a parachute and it will not break? What will they come up next?
Deployment of the parachute will be the biggest force. A skydyver will have 3-4G for a few seconds.. Military will got to about 8G.
Considering that the servers will most likely not running, I am sure that the average packing for shipment should be enough. Just see that there are no moving parts and you should be able to get a lot more durability.
My guess is that the real damage will happen when some person drops it from the table during installation, not when it comes down on a parachute.
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Guys, I wanted you to build one thing, ONE thing only and you screwed up!
I wanted server capable of running SkyDrive, not one capable of Skydive!
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I was going to post that the military shock requirements for transport are MIL-810 and that's only a 2m drop on any surf/edge/corner without operational damage, but it turns out, it doesn't even meet that spec without requiring extra packaging:
"The Bunker XRV-5241 can withstand a free-fall drop of around 1 meter, but for parachute deployment it needs to be packaged into the case for additional protection."
You know, we can package inertial guidance mechanisms (some of the most shock sensitive components you're likely to ship, which have about 1/5th the shock resistance of a china plate) to meet MIL-810, so if you're going to require that we add special packing to meet the basic transport spec we may as well not spend $4k on this and save the money for packing.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
Dropped from the sky by Parachute is supposed to tell me it's rugged? We had about 300 kids design systems at home to protect eggs dropped from a helicopter when I was highschool. I do not find this impressive.
Can't wait to see the "2-hour delivery" radio button on their checkout page.
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How did I end up with Toddler 3.0 then? I didn't think Hand 1.0 had that feature.