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itmauritius   01-12-2003 at 08:54:28 PM

Pls Pls Pls tell me if this is simply true bad luck or possibly an act of sabotage.

"On 2nd January 2003, two HDD 120Gb IBM 120GXP on SAME channel of a Silicon Tech RAID controller fail at the SAME time, effectively ruining the Mirror. On the 12th January 2003, the server components are BURNT by what seems to be excess voltage, the 450W Digitiuz PSU seems to be the cause. 2 remaining Hard disks (see above), system HDD (Maxtor), CPU (P4), Motherboard (Asus P4S), CD-ROM are out of irrecupable, probably with Memory and VC. Some say that the Input Voltage is OK but the Output voltage burnt everything.

The system is ON 24hr a day in an air-con room. A maximum of 4 people are connected to the server simultaneously and a MS SQL database driven Software runs on this server.

Am I undergoing sheer bad luck or can someone explain rationally why i should not think of this as a sabotage

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camieabz   01-12-2003 at 09:15:22 PM
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I'd say bad luck, or can you think of anyone who would have the access, the motive and the skills to do such a thing?

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Flamethrower205   01-12-2003 at 09:26:54 PM
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Why not run a keylogger on ur system?

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itmauritius   01-12-2003 at 09:37:55 PM
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BTW, what skills are need if s/o DID really wanted to make that thing burn? In other words, what are the steps to crash that server?

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starbucksaddict   01-12-2003 at 10:07:08 PM
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I have heard of this happening before.
Check the drives for lot numbers. Sometimes
the factory will have a bad batch. If you
always buy from the same vendor, never put
two drives from the same lot in the same
array.

Flame not, lest ye be phlegmed.

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Crashman   01-13-2003 at 05:14:02 AM
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What kind of UPS are you using?

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lhgpoobaa   01-13-2003 at 05:44:15 AM
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Well you used IBM drives. Thats sad that both died at the same time. Next time, dont use IBM.

Its also possible for a CPU to go on the fritz... specially a odd name brand like the one you have. Just bad luckim thinking.

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itmauritius   01-13-2003 at 06:32:50 AM
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I've been posting the same message over to 5 message boards and got more than 100 messages in some hours. I've got some clues about the prob. The fact is that some ppl are trying to use that problem to get rid of me (literally) by emphasising that I propose that system (even though decision was collegial) and neglecting WHY I did it.. B.C of price factor. The "accident" was the perfect occasion to throw me out. Perhaps it is hardware-based but one cannot rule out the "sabotage" factor.

Last thing. Could this have ever happened on a brand name server? Do you think high end PSU might have similar problems (Enermax, HEC etc)? The funny thing is that the HDDs and the other components were not at fault per se in this case!

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casiowatch   01-13-2003 at 07:07:38 AM
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Sorry to hear that (if you did get thrown out).

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jihiggs   01-13-2003 at 08:43:25 AM
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those things could be caused by a bad power supply.

my computer is so fast, it completes an endless loop in less than 4 seconds!

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