Remember when hot-swap devices were new and could sometimes cause shorts, crashes, and other catastrophic hardware events? Yeah, I remember 1994 too.
But it seems our leadership isn’t aware that enterprise level hot swap SCSI devices are designed to be, well, you know… hot swap.
“But can you guarantee with 100% certainty that it won’t cause the machine to go down?”
You know what, jackass, I can’t guarantee with 100% certainty that a truck won’t crash into the building, a plan crashes into the building, or that I won’t reach across the table and pull your tongue out of your ass. The world is full of uncertainty.
I had to deliver a PowerPoint presentation to these chowder heads explaining the pains that IEEE has gone through to make sure that the power connections don’t throw sparks like an arc welder. You know, things that anyone in the IT field (who hasn’t been in a coma or suffered some head trauma) should be aware of.
Yeah, this blog is gonna be 20 TB by Christmas.
Posted by Uncle Bob 