If
you've been looking for a server solution that can stand up to the odd gun fight or three (haven't we all?), HP has just
the thing for you. See, they grew tired of just tossing around the term "bulletproof" for their half-million
dollar StorageWorks XP12000, and decided they'd pop a .308 caliber bullet through it to prove their point. They fired
up the server and got it pumping out a few video streams, and then shot it clean through while the server kept on
streaming, thanks to a little bit of server redundancy. The bullet made it through the array and shattered a fish tank
on the other side, but HP assures us in their must-see video of the incident that no animals or humans were harmed in
the making of this film, so it looks like the goldfish made it out ok -- though we're sure
he would've dropped
a few frames if they put a bullet through him, the slacker.
[Via
The Inquirer]
posted Apr 21st 2006 8:59PM
Now our fighting men and women can take a direct hit from an IED and keep on watching their DVD rips.
The download speeds for that video are horrific. I have an 8 Mbit cable connection and I'm getting .3 KB/s. Anyone have any alternate links?
Bulletproof yes. Engadget proof no.
jee they could have used a .50 bmg AP round
To #2, well I just nyud-ified the link, so I hope this helps - http://h30067.www3.hp.com.nyud.net:8090/AllEntries//wmv/5785060306.wmv
there's a bullet hole in it. how is that bulletproof? ok, it has some redundancy that makes it survive a bullet wound, but that is not the same thing as bulletproof.
Wow. I guess that shows hp makes good machines. but, it would be interesting to know if it can witstand a fire or a bomb or something, cause that might me more plausible than a 0.308 cal. bullet right in the center. Anyways, who am I to say that.
#6...quote from the video..."The term "Bullet Proof" used in this video refers to the term used in the IT industry and refers to extremly stable hardware and/or software."
He was only pointing to the irony of the word bulletproof for this system that had one pass right through it. I wouldnt place it out of context. we all know, i hope, what it means in the computer industry.
Uh yeah so they set up a silly test to shoot the thing in a blank part of a pcb? I find it a little too convenient that they didn't shoot through something important. Give me a gun and a bullet and I'll find a place to shoot that sucker that will get your video to stop streaming. Sorry I'm not impressed, I'm not buying one.
That is the biggest pile of bull I've seen in a long time. The video is a joke, with the announcer making it sound like the server is actually any good.
Just because it's redundant it's bulletproof? That's like saying I can have 2 20" monitors next to eachother, and I shoot one and the other STILL WORKS!! it must be bulletproof!
I also find it funny that while their server may be "bulletproof" using their definition, it sure is slow as hell.. the video download speeds are terrible, and they're advertising a server? haha!
That's a seriously cheesy video. And I'd prefer to see the test performed with the bullet fired into a random location in the server instead of a carefully selected and marked area selected by HP's engineers.
Buleltproof means that it STOPS a bullet, this is not bulletproof at all, it can just take a bullet and keep on going, like... a car.
May be Nortel, Alcatel etc should make some video with a optical ring network that will not be affected by blowing up a node with a bomb, and then call it "terrorist proof".
It look like a Google Maps "war disaster" satellite view !!
What is it with Americans and guns!? Once someone told me it's deep in their culture, guess he was right.
Armen, don't let this little video skew your view of American culture, as it doesn't represent the whole of America at all.
Come on Americans, Look at that photo...where is it shooting out actual circutry/a cpu? The bullet hit empty space pcb.
Since when did this become commentary on Americans and our culture regarding firearms? It's a silly HP marketing ploy that apparently backfired in bandwidth cost and negative press reagarding the actual stability of an HP video on demand server.
BTW let us worry about our country, the world doesn't run by your culture's standards on firearms. =)
Wow, that download is seriously slow, and it repeatedly dies. They must be using the server they shot with the gun to host the video! ;-)
Use Tony Rayo site if you want to see it in this lifetime...
Maybe they should do something that isnt engineered, say a trooper hosing the server with a m249, lets see how the server will handle that!
I wonder if that announcer does beer commercials.
Link on HPs site died. Only got 3kbs, got it on my site for a mirror now.
http://www.cttrc.com/tools/pafiledb.php?action=category&id=5
Wait a minute, I've seen enough movies to know that computers explode when you shoot them.
Maybe a round of Depleted Uranium would put that sucker out of order, well placed shot or not!
looks hot
Is quite simmilar to the computer of LOST(TV).
Anyways, this computer can resist a .308 caliber but i wonder if it resist a nerf watergun ;-)
Wow they need to marketing these things in Oakland!
correct me if i'm wrong, but an XP12000 isn't a server, it's a SAN device.
That pretty much makes everyone who commented on this post an ASS device
The video implies that the XP12000 was able to transparently recover from a partial failure. But as others have said, the bullet doesn't look like it actually made anything fail, so this test seems equivalent to driving your car in the daytime after shooting out your front headlight.
And enough with these language battles over the accuracy of "bullet-proof" as a metaphor. Withstanding damage is way more bitchin than being impervious to harm, flat out.