SSD, meet door

Tonight’s lesson: solid state disks don’t like to be crushed.

crushed-ssd

I was installing some SSD’s in servers at my datacenter tonight, and one of the metal cabinet doors (about the size of a regular door) fell out of the cabinet and landed squarely on my backpack. Amazingly, my ultrabook wasn’t damaged, but one of the SSD’s was destroyed. Ugh.