elon musk literally ripped servers out of data center despite being warned against it
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given hes that careless i really wouldnt want to buy.a car made from him either. i certainly wouldnt get in a rocket he built
Other workers at the facility watched with a mix of amazement and horror. Musk and his renegade team were rolling servers out without putting them in crates or swaddling them in protective material, then using store-bought straps to secure them in the truck. “I’ve never loaded a semi before,” James admitted. Ross called it “terrifying.” It was like cleaning out a closet, “but the stuff in it is totally critical.”
At 3 p.m., after they had gotten four servers onto the truck, word of the caper reached the top executives at NTT, the company that owned and managed the data center. They issued orders that Musk’s team halt. Musk had the mix of glee and anger that often accompanied one of his manic surges. He called the CEO of the storage division, who told him it was impossible to move server racks without a bevy of experts. “Bulls—,” Musk explained. “We have already loaded four onto the semi.”
The CEO then told him that some of the floors could not handle more than 500 pounds of pressure, so rolling a 2,000-pound server would cause damage. Musk replied that the servers had four wheels, so the pressure at any one point was only 500 pounds. “The dude is not very good at math,” Musk told the musketeers.
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/09/12/the-batshit-crazy-story-of-the-day-elon-musk-decided-to-personally-rip-servers-out-of-a-sacramento-data-center/
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it wasn't 4 servers, it was 4 racks of servers... with something like 32 or 40 servers per rack.
I would never try to move a rack of servers from location to location... even just a few feet inside the Data Center.
Racks are heavy and tend to be very top heavy... easy to tip over.
To do it right you move whatever you want to save from each server to a backup system and then wipe the server of any data, you unplug that individual 1U (1.75 inch high "pizza box"
server, unbolt it from the rack, pull it out, put it in a padded box that it came it (or new ones from the server maker) and then move those on pallets... like 10 servers per pallet. You use pallet jacks and lots of strapping on the pallet to keep all of the server in place. You do NOT stack the pallets. Etc, etc.
Disk drives do not do well being bounced around like that.
The servers were full of data when he moved them... and the security measures he took were laughable.
Yes, he could have done it for less than what somebody or other said it would cost and still done it right... but good god... it's no wonder X is having issues even since he took over.
Idiot.
