Comments on: Inergen release associated with acute hard drive failure rate. What effect causes the damage? http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/inergen-release-associated-with-acute-hard-drive-failure-rate-what-effect-causes-the-damage/ Sat, 25 May 2013 00:24:16 +0000 hourly 1 By: thinman2 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/inergen-release-associated-with-acute-hard-drive-failure-rate-what-effect-causes-the-damage/#comment-82034 thinman2 Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:59:42 +0000 #comment-82034 I was a data center manager at a company which also had Inergen. I would be surprised if the pressure increase caused the disks to fail. If the room is correctly designed, with louvers of the correct size, the pressure will only increase slightly. We shared a 12 floor building with other clients. The management of the building would perform yearly maintenance over a holiday weekend which required a shutdown of our data center. After 10 years of annual shutdown, It was not uncommon for disks, power supplies, etc, which had been working OK, to be bad when the systems were brought back up. I think this is the more likely answer.

]]> By: sekjoeritie http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/inergen-release-associated-with-acute-hard-drive-failure-rate-what-effect-causes-the-damage/#comment-80480 sekjoeritie Wed, 18 Aug 2010 04:57:23 +0000 #comment-80480 The Siemens White Paper is no longer valid, it was until july 31. But the tests indicated that various HDD fail after exposure to noise above 120dB. This noise level is reached during fire extinguishing by either Inergen or other extinguishing gas. Also the sound level of the alarms should be added to the source of noise.

]]> By: carlosdl http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/inergen-release-associated-with-acute-hard-drive-failure-rate-what-effect-causes-the-damage/#comment-77382 carlosdl Thu, 20 May 2010 16:59:25 +0000 #comment-77382 Here’s the correct link:

Potential problems with computer hard disks when fire
extinguishing systems are released

]]> By: gl0bal http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/inergen-release-associated-with-acute-hard-drive-failure-rate-what-effect-causes-the-damage/#comment-77378 gl0bal Thu, 20 May 2010 15:18:10 +0000 #comment-77378 Can’t seem to get this link to work. Is anyone able to check it please?

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