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A few years back there was an incident in Sweden where noise coming from the gas based fire suppression system going off destroyed hard drives [1].

1. https://www.theregister.com/2018/04/26/decibels_destroy_disk...

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I've also seen a weird video (lost to time unfortunately), where someone showed that they could yell at their servers in a data centre and introduce errors (or something similar). Was very strange to see, but they had a console up clearly showing that it was having an impact.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4&fmt=18

Because of course it was Bryan :D

Brian just giving his opinion on anything would give hard drives errors... That guy loves to run his mouth (and I love to listen).

Actually, although the video is on Bryan Cantrill's YouTube account, that was Brendan Gregg.

I was merely the videographer! For anyone who is curious, I discussed the backstory of that video with Ben Sigelman.[0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IYzD_NR0W4#t=28m46s

I actually planned to include a link to this video in my original response but then left it out. Thanks for posting!

ING in Romania had the same issue: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/noise-from-fire-d...

We had the same issue at a customer site. To add since the decibels were outside the rated environment the warranty was void on the harddisks and they had to be replaced even if they were not destroyed.

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