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Michael T. from Western Washington University sent me this heartbreaking picture of a server rack after a fire. Trust me, after going through a recent server upgrade here, there is nothing scarier than a picture like this. If this doesn’t prompt people to do a fire safety inspection of their servers, I don’t know what else will. :(
 
heh, it was fast because I didn't have to fix anything ;)

Sometimes it takes a second for the post to show up on the front page.
 
Um....over to the left on the lower stack, is that a pron mag? I think I see boobies......or am I a sick man for seeing boobies in everything?

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LOL in advance.
 
Hah, shopping for new rack equipment for my company at the moment. This picture is more interesting than the datasheets I've been looking at :p
 
I get the feeling that it was the plexi glass on the front of the cabinet which casued the most damage. Typically a fire would be pretty contained... the surrounding enviroment of books and flamables didn't help the situation at all.

I guess the lessons learned is that you should use flame retarded stuff and you should never have flamable materials inside your server room.
 
Wow what a cramped server room. maybe they should have moved all of those flammable books and papers away from the 6 foot high space heater.
 
Dende said:
I was thinking the same thing LOL Man with all the books and paper setting around I wonder what started the fire ;):rolleyes:
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I've seen many server rooms get used as storage closests just like that. Books and other crap get piled up around the server and no one gives any thought to it.
 
My workplace keeps their backup tapes at a bank, so if anything did happen, it would be recoverable.
 
laserdemon said:
Um....over to the left on the lower stack, is that a pron mag? I think I see boobies......or am I a sick man for seeing boobies in everything?

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LOL in advance.
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Looks like a half a face. Lots of graphic card ads show female faces for some reason.
 
jstnomega said:
OTOH, possibly worn out junk insurance fraud

just sayin'
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I very much doubt that. That looks like a production server. The data inside it is infinitely more valuable than the machines. Insurance wouldn't pay for the data, just the machines.
 
Azhar said:
Looks like a half a face. Lots of graphic card ads show female faces for some reason.
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Awww man, I think you're right. Sorry laserdemon, you're a sick man.

Crap, I guess that makes me sick too.
 
Ockie said:
I get the feeling that it was the plexi glass on the front of the cabinet which casued the most damage. Typically a fire would be pretty contained... the surrounding enviroment of books and flamables didn't help the situation at all.

I guess the lessons learned is that you should use flame retarded stuff and you should never have flamable materials inside your server room.
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This, this exactly. That was just an accident waiting to happen.
 
Wheres the Inergen supression system? Sheesh. Our server farm has 20 huge tanks of the stuff. Dont want to be in there when they go off ;)
 
1. Whata sloppy ass workplace. Reminds me of my first tech job at a local IT support place. Shit all over the fucking place, drove me nuts. Had it nice and clean till I quit then went back to slum

2. Hope they had recent off location backups somewhere!

3. Bet it smells good in there!
 
Oh geez. When did this happen? I go to Western Washington University and work for academic technology there. Didn't hear about anything catastrophic happening when I went to work this morning, so at least that's good.
 
PWMK2 said:
Oh geez. When did this happen? I go to Western Washington University and work for academic technology there. Didn't hear about anything catastrophic happening when I went to work this morning, so at least that's good.
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Ah, taking a look at this here: http://digg.com/hardware/Flame_Broiled_Rack_of_Servers

Happened six years ago. You can go here to see more pictures. I actually walk past that particular room every day when I go to class, LOL.
 
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