A Workplace First For Me

In the many years I've been employed as a geek, I've never had to use a crowbar on a server before. Yesterday, I did.

A while ago, California HQ shipped me two Dell servers to install in our data center in Sterling, VA. One was in relatively good shape but the other clearly had a very, very hard life: the thick metal faceplate was bent & twisted in ways no server should have ever experienced.

Thursday, the California folks asked me to swap the hard drives between the two servers. Removing the disks from one server was no problem, but the other server's twisted faceplate made removal of the disk trays utterly impossible. Yesterday, I had to use a crowbar to gently bend the faceplate sufficiently that the disks could be removed. Oy!

I'd really like to know what happened to this server in its former life... pity there's nothing like Carfax for servers.

A Workplace First For Me

In the many years I've been employed as a geek, I've never had to use a crowbar on a server before. Yesterday, I did.

A while ago, California HQ shipped me two Dell servers to install in our data center in Sterling, VA. One was in relatively good shape but the other clearly had a very, very hard life: the thick metal faceplate was bent & twisted in ways no server should have ever experienced.

Thursday, the California folks asked me to swap the hard drives between the two servers. Removing the disks from one server was no problem, but the other server's twisted faceplate made removal of the disk trays utterly impossible. Yesterday, I had to use a crowbar to gently bend the faceplate sufficiently that the disks could be removed. Oy!

I'd really like to know what happened to this server in its former life... pity there's nothing like Carfax for servers.