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LTO Tape drives that run their cooling at 100 percent power when idle and have no particle filters https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34502596

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This isn't that uncommon in datacenter hardware. Most of the gear does not have filters on intakes. The air should already be filtered in the facility anyways.

Running fans at 100% is slightly weirder, but also not unheard-of.

Not saying this isn't true, but you made the thread and the video. Is there anyone else talking about this?

Tape drives need to be disrupted. They are way too expensive.

most things don't have filters.

I don't think I've seen a drive failure because of it though. I think the last time the robot failed it was mostly because of the autoloader not working properly.

Tape drives (3592) in a Singapore data centre had lots of problems in the smokey burning season until they put in filtering specifically for the drives. In other office-like data transfer rooms in other cities they didn't seem to have problems, so perhaps there's something especially bad about smoke.

I assume smoke has some level of tar or some other heavy sticky substance, so I could see that being a problem.

It also depends on your cooling type as well. Most of the places I worked had a closed loop system, either hot/cold aisle, or radiators on the front of the rack.

THe "zombie" rooms did pull air directly from the outside world, but they had massive filters on them. dust wasn't really a problem for us.

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