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m0t0_ryder
01-14-2005, 03:26 PM
Older Data Center?
Newer Servers?

Having a lot of Server HW failures and issues?

Check out THIS (http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/110104widernetwhiskers.html) article.

I liked this part of the article...
Loman says one way that zinc whiskers are identified is through a distinctive popping sound that power supplies emit as they are snuffed out by the whiskers. He recalls one customer whose data center lost dozens of power supplies after an old upflow air conditioning system and a new downflow one were turned on at the same time, scattering zinc whiskers everywhere. "It sounded like popcorn," he says.

zefflyn
01-23-2005, 10:20 PM
Interesting.


The building I'm in is being re-roofed, and we get lots of weird tar dust and stuff falling down and into the machines.