Hello,

silly question: how hard do you think it is to get a HD off a DC that doesn't belong to you?

Apparently, in the Hub of Telecoms, downtown Los Angeles, it requires anywhere between 5 and 10 signatures and that the DC people write down the HD serial number (??).

Anyone has any experience like that?

Thanks,

Why would you want to take a Hard Drive that doesnt belong to you. Isnt that against the law?

Kind regards and the WHT Post are getting more and more sillier

Phillip

You mean like your CEO own its, or your best friend? But they are away or something like that???

Its quite hard just to get login information, yet alone a HD. Impossible with Rackshack ;)

silly question: how hard do you think it is to get a HD off a DC that doesn't belong to you?

Why stop there? Why not get the whole server that doesn't belong to you.

why not get two? Hows about sneaking a whole rack out under your raincoat?

:stickout

I propose a hostile takeover of the datacenter, with intent to keep it forever!

im guessing he means either to borrow or buy it in order to transfer files/customers, or to put it in a different server....

Yes its a pain in the a** to get things out of some datacenters in downtown LA. Its hard enough to get into one, let alone get out with equipment from within....and if its afterhours its even worse since they think you are stealing it or havent paid your bill.

I imagine people finding their drives or servers missing would be a worse inconvenience than having to get a couple signatures.

Ok, God.
OK that didn't help at all.

Can you tell the difference between:

how hard do you think it is to get a HD that doesn't belong to you off a DC?

and

how hard do you think it is to get a HD off a DC that doesn't belong to you?

grmbl....

Anyway, my question was the latter...so if anyone can answer that...:wavey:

The look the same to me.

Oh, well. That was expected.

After all we're web hosts, not english teachers, so when some people write broken english and other people don't read well either...:stickout

I meant that the data center doesn't belong to us...I felt this would be useful here, so that noone would reply "how come you cannot get your HD out of [your own] DC?"

If you own the harddisk, you should have ownership of the harddisk and thus it is yours to claim. If that is the case, the Datacenter does not have any rights to hold it against your will unless there are something else at stake here.

I guess if you write to them and include a copy of the invoice for the harddisk with the serial number and the warranty card and when that checks out, you should be able to prove it is yours.

Of course, you might have to cover shipping cost.

Yup, I know that.
I'm just trying to figure out if it's just this DC of if it's hellish to get your own equipement out, no matter what DC it's in.

In data-centers with good security measures it should be hard to take any hardware out. In fact I expect the personell to check whether you take your HD, which is of course your right, or someone else's because if there're open racks (which I don't hope :) ) you can theoretically get any HD you want.
So I think this just shows that they're taking security in their data-center very seriously which is a good thing.

talking about this issue brings up questions...

what happens if a terrorist targets every data center in America?
Technically speaking, they could wipe out all the major sites on the Internet... An average Data center host around 60,000 websites. Now if you take down 10, thats about 600,000 websites... interesting