Admin brought his drill to work, destroyed disks and crashed a datacenter
Admin brought his drill to work, destroyed disks and crashed a datacenter
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Admin brought his drill to work and destroyed a datacenter
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And who among us hasn’t wanted to do this? This man is a hero
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Take an impact drill to a rack? Can't say it had ever occurred to me.
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Not an impact drill, a hammer drill.
An impact driver would impart rotational shocks, which is bad enough. A hammer drill imparts straight-ahead shocks into the drill hole, which if we're talking shock to the cabinet holding spinning hard drives would be murder on them. These are typically used to drill through things like multiple feet/cm of concrete. Watch the drill bit in this animation punch into the hole and back out with the hammer action. It happens much faster in real life of course, probably 5-10 times a second I'd guess
This is apparently the type of drill this guys used.
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I wouldn't say impact drill, but to me it's like driving down the hwy, seeing an oncoming car in the other lane and thinking, "if I just jerked the wheel, it would be catastrophic". It's never something I'd actually entertain, but the thought has certainly flew by. I think there's an actual term for that. But yea, that's how I feel about just destroying drives in a data center. This guy was just nuts enough to do it.
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Never wanted to get out of work?
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This article feel strangely worded and unpleasant to read. Is this written by AI ?
"This article feel strangely worded and unpleasant to read."
Is this irony?
People email The Register with their stories then they rewrite it into these articles once a week.
A story that never happened not actually written by an AI....Yea, I'm pretty sure we're just in literal hell at this point