Video: Sun Blackbox tested during simulated earthquake

Posted on June 16, 2007 - 18:20 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

Wondering how reliable those container-sized Blackbox datacenters from Sun are?

The firm simulated a magnitude 6.7 earthquake to see what happens. The Blackbox just keeps working, according to Gizmodo the only failures were caused by power cords coming out.

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