Comment by nerdsniper
7 hours ago
I'm surprised this reportedly only affected 19 server racks. Some of the small FPV quadcopter strikes I've seen videos of have collapsed entire homes. Even if the structure is more resilient than a fragile home, I would have expected the blast from a larger long-range drone like a Shahed to damage more server racks than that.
It's either 100lb or 100Kg, with a direct hit on a dense centre, it would damage a lot of racks, but if it's oblique, or indirect, impartial, the damage could be less pronounced. They could also be misrepresenting by diminishing the damage as there's a lot of information suppression going on.
I think during the OVH fire, it was the smoke damage that was deemed to have damaged a lot of the servers.
Fans and cooling might be affected by all the debris. Spinning rust drives often have breathing holes, too.
Absolutely. So many failure modes. Literally even just 'things falling over'.
Yea it's hard to reconcile such a small number of affected racks with such a widespread impact though, so this must not be the whole story. They're talking about a half a year to restore the data center. It must be more than a roof repair and 19 racks.
The sheer amount of metal on every rack makes DCs very dense