Who, Me?: Some people will do anything to avoid an all-nighter
(this fits here right?)
As Slim built a new team, head office sent him a server admin he described as “a guy who half-assed everything and cleverly managed to always figure out the laziest way to do something.”
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Worse than a normal drill: a hammer drill. To make the holes in a comm rack bigger to fit servers… in an active rack…
I think its more likely an impact driver. They are much more common than hammer drills. Ironically more inappropriate for any drilling.
I’ve both done and seen some “creative” solutions here and there over the years, but that’s quite an accomplishment. But you can’t deny the results, very effective percussive maintenance.
Slim learned that the lazy admin knew about the too-small screw holes on the rented racks but left it too late to hire someone with the skills and equipment to rightsize them.
The lazy admin decided to do the job himself, but didn’t fancy doing it overnight as is sensible for this sort of dangerous job.
“He brought his own drill from home, threw a bedsheet over the top server so metal flecks from drilling won’t go into it, and started drilling these rack holes during trading hours,” Slim told Who, Me?
To make matters worse – if that’s possible – the lazy admin set his drill into Concrete Mode, which in this column’s experience usually means the machine both spins the bit at furious speed and pumps it back and forth in a percussive hammering motion.
The result?
“EVERY. SINGLE. HARD DRIVE. DEAD,”
Wait so what happened? It doesn’t sound like he was drilling directly into the hard drives. Is the vibration from drilling a hole in nearby metal really going to reliably destroy all of them?
Hard disks, and not SSDs? Hell yeah. They’re spinning metal/magnetic platters. Vibrations can throw them off balance and totally fuck up the platter.
Is this solarpunk?
