Hosting again

Andrew Beattie andrew at tug.com
Mon Oct 29 20:27:39 GMT 2007


David Cantrell wrote:
>
> They demonstrated this by pulling
> disks out of a running machine (ooh, hot swap RAID on a PC!) and by
> hammering a nail through one of the CPUs.
HP have been making a habit of this sort of thing recently.

They started with a storage array:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gnjb1WVkhmU

Then a server:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7aP5iqZRfY

Now they have gone the whole hog and "blown up a datacentre"
(or at least, a row of racks running in the middle of a field)
http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/cache/523434-0-0-0-121.html

The videos are worth playing to the end to hear the cheezy disclaimer stuff.

Andrew


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