Our server room ACTUALLY Caught Fire Explained

From the fire and into the flames

An actual heart?

It was Colton's office anyways

@@msinfo32 its artificial.

Gotta keep the emergency hard drives warm so they're ready to use at a moments notice.

This is my first time seeing Brian the Electrician but I'll thumbs up for calling this the LCU.

Electro?

Magicwinguy 200ty like

Brian the hvac man

Amazing lol

If those bus bars needed tightening before power-on, then there should of been a sticker/shield over the input connectors mentioning that. Once the input wiring is installed you'd have a hard time getting to the busbars.

@@ionstorm66 Even if someone opens it up I'm sure they will say something like only a qualified technician is allowed to open that under warranty, blah blah.

Is it possible that the fire was hot enough to dislodge the connectors? I have no idea how hot that fire got, or what the connectors were made of, but is it possible that both parties are wrong about the cause?

@@Hexen_Wulf Unless it literally got hot enough to melt them away I don't see how a fire is gonna unthread something.

​@Saybro WT only as devils advocate not unthreaded but cracked. I have had so many old, stressed, ir corroded nuts split ir dissolve and the fire could do similar (though I may have misunderstood the arcing breakdown).
But if that happened there still should be the blackened debris at the bottom. Still suspect the supplier's fault.

They're probably like:
"meh, we have enough money to fix it."

I believe this actually happened back in 2019 and they explained it in a different video already

Everything is fine. (Take sip of tea)

Well they were not so chill in the wan show when that happend, they had months to think over it :D

hm

I was thinking exactly this lol

To be fair, there is a difference between a solid wall behind it and a few feet of space with some bins on the floor, although if more large stuff gets crammed in there (which it probably will) that could really restrict airflow and become a problem.

@@Penguin_Spy chill

@@ericbower2256 ghhhg

@@ericbower2256 you should chill

what i hate most in these cases is when they use more time and resources to find someone to blame it on instead of thinking about a solution. First comes the fix then we can talk about who to blame.

From what they say about their deal with eaton in this vid, I wouldn't be surprised if that was something eaton required to be in the video, seeing as they said that they made the vid in part to show how to do it correctly as part of their deal. I wouldn't be surprised if off camera linus was quite a bit more on brian's side.

I was once hired as an hardware/firmware R&D engineer, within a company that somehow ended up outsourcing all R&D...
All technical decisions where internally made by tech illiterate bozos, resulting in an endless stream of (often the same) stupid mistakes. It was always form over function, making maintenance a cesspool to swim through. The external firms would blame everything that went wrong with their garbage equipment on our internal technical personnel, them knowing that our tech-inept management would actually believe their excuses. I couldn't sleep in the end, got another job after only 1.6 years.
Companies coming up with stupid excuses, as shown in this video, get me all frustrated again.

@@Yo-ji4ud I wouldn't be surprised if Eaton wasn't gonna cover any of this until they (Linus and Brian) discovered this fault and were like "yo, wtf is this about? That's on you."

I was accused of taking down the whole corporate network when i was not even working. Not the only time. I left shortly after.

Well it's his fault for not being an Eaton tech. /s

@@namAehT LMAO

I've installed hundreds of these things and had no problem reading installations instructions and doing it correctly. I'm neither an electrician nor an Eaton tech. This is a straight up case of rtfm.

@@flyingtentacle7631 I totally agree, but this wasn't Brian's responsibility.
If I hire an electrician to hardwire 240V to my table saw, I would not expect him to take apart my saw to check the wiring inside.
The person who should have rtfm is whoever was responsible for ensuring the servers had a UPS.

Given the number of products Eaton makes I don't think an Eaton tech would have made a difference.

I really thought linus was smarter than this honestly.

thankgod it wasnt just me lol linus will be linus 🤣🤣🤣

Maybe the new generation dosen't need the extra space behind

It needs only like a foot to breathe. It won't be doing the Moonwalk...

@@RashoLive There's also no cardboard or other easily combustible materials. Linus didn't do anything inherently wrong, and I am almost certain he was making a point, but it's entertaining none-the-less.

RIGHT lmao

I doubt what he put there is actually a problem, but it did sound quite dumb.

security through obscurity

The enter/return button exists

The magnetic doors do not interrupt the server unit?

That is called a backdoor ;)

@XRFiltration I think those puny magnets with a few feet distance won't cause much interference, No.

Fa.. Correct!

Top 10 Anime Betrayals

Brian Refrigeration.

As not an electrician and a man commenting on a 3 year old video, I can tell you I 100% agree. It's egregious they even attempted to blame that on someone else, much less "air flow" haha. What a trash company.

the linus cinematic universe

I love how aggressively Canadian he is.

Not surprising If you're not a pleb and read the manga.

It's always heartwarming when an EU character that fans love gets added to the mainline canon.

everythning for contant..

No no, thats simply part of becoming an Electrician.

Zombie1Boy very true

Brian burns Linus like Linus burns a UPS...

when you become an electrician you get a filthy mouth lmao

so he can order a/c right.. can not do space for air flow.. and can not lift thing... what a tool...

+

I didn't even get the joke until you walked me through it.

@@1900maniac such wise words

biggggg stretch

I actually scrolled down thru the comments to see if anyone else thought that. LOL.

Not the most secure thing I've ever seen...

well since its magnetic he could always get those magnetic locks with a touch pad or other form of security protection that way all he has to do is put the security code in and it would unlock the panels.

The protection will be that he puts a giant pile of tech stuff in front of these doors.

Well to be fair it'd probably be easier to just kick the door down rather than move that steel and battery beast to go through 😅

maybe they added more room than was needed for clearence.

@@Ramog1000 and it's not like a full wall

tbf its clear at the end of the video why this one needs clearance, its units are deeper than the old one

also i hope it will only be this stuff and not much more, than it will be fine, it's realy not much he did put there.

I'm sure they're eating a huge loss on a part they probably sell for $1000 but actually cost like $15.

Well he already paid 2k for the warranty, so they shouldn't care much.

@@rolerroleris533 When they have him on the hook for the warranty that is when they should care because they get payed and if it doesn't fail they don't have to repair it.

@@MartinDrkos warranty in my country for everything is a lie..

@@obadanw here it really comes down to the company honoring it

Right that is major fire hazards

Dudes an actual danger to everyone in that house.

@@redhammer92 that is very much not a house.

@@mollykalk8240 wouldnt plastic and metal just slow down the spread lol

@@handlmycck just yesterday near my house a big metal shed full of plastic for recycling caught fire. It was declared a major incident and had over 20 fire crews on it and it was still out of control. Plastic does not slow down fire lol, even fire retardant stuff is only self extinguishing after so many seconds. It'll burn for that time though.

Linus is a real homie for brian

So by 2023 Linus will be exposed for the inept boss he truly is?

@@zeldatrek Let's hope this one ain't true and that it's not predicting the future

@@christobacon1 Yes

@@zeldatrek shush dont reveal the secret's

More proof that Linus Tech Tips will be owned by Nvidia

makes a better fire?

@@billfusionenterprise This is cursed

Ahahah. I was thinking that too

Least we’re all on the same page 🤘😂

As long as the bins create a fire hazard there is no problem. It is good stuff for making a video. After it burns down again.

need matterial to burn for the fire bro

@@LovelyDoetje if they're plastic bins, the next video could be interesting...

oh 100% anyone who knows even a slight bit about eletronics knows its not the electricians job to fucking open the machine up like that. thats totally their fault and they know it. they just knew how bad the pr would be if they fucked over ltt here

@@noname-goodname4539 It's up to the installer to to a final check. Even if the company do a check up on their side before sending the unit, at the end, once the installer takes the unit and installs it, it's up to them to validate that it's in the expected configuration.
Faut is still on Eaton for shipping a bad unit, but saying that it's not the installer job is wrong. It's like saying it's not up to a mecanic to warn you about issues with your car if it's not something they worked on recently...

@@arakwar oh hell no. The installer is exactly that the installer.. Not QC.. You expect the guy wall mounting your tv to open it up and check it? How far does that check have to go? The electrician is supposed to open and physically inspect the inside of the RCD before it's installed? That fire is entirely eatons fault. Not even ventilation would have prevented a fire from missing lock nuts..

@@arakwar That's like saying that your CPU fried because *you* forgot to check the soldering quality between die and heat spreader when installing your new EPYC 64 core monster.

Arakwar Disagree. Taking your car analogy, it would be more similar to purchasing a car and having the engine seize because there was no oil, then the dealer blaming you for not checking before you drove away. While the plate was removable and the issue could have been spotted, as was alluded to in the video, there’s no need or indication to remove components during installation, so why would a reasonable person unnecessarily disassemble a new device? Yes, there’s fault on both sides for failure of the unit, but it seems unlikely that lack of air circulation is the cause of a clear electrical fire.

lol

I mean, having airflow doesn't mean having nothing in that space. It simply means it needs physical space to be able to push air around.As long as they don't start taking the space back there for granted and store large items, having a few part bins on the floor won't affect air flow much.

in other word.. linus just don't know shit about eletricnoic... he treat it like there are space so just throw it in there..

@@campkira in other words you don't know shit about electronics since it's an aerodynamic mistake not electrical

@@campkira His channel is literally called Linus TECH Tips. I think he knows at least a little bit about electronics.

I never had AC 😁

@@ACOnetwork ACO network more like AC NO network.

Because he applies the same "I'll do it myself instead of paying people who know what they're doing" mentality to his house that he does his business.

its linus. he will figure it out some day.

@@satakrionkryptomortis he'll try to liquid cool the building

Future video: sub-zero air conditioning

@@thalente8074 Like he did with the office a few years back or by filling it with water?

@@TheRavenCoder arrite that's funny

hahaha made me laugh also

LOL, i came to comment this same thing while watching the video

Brian: No need for an introduction

big brain

@@ethantorres4061 Big Brian*

@@FireSiku Nah cringe

They tell something to linus and he fucks it anyway around 😂

this is such a big no-no in a server room. You don't want anything laying around, especially stuff that can catch fire. Then again, I think their entire serverroom is pretty much made out of plaster and such, so except for the insulation that they used, that thing is not gonna be very fire resistant lol.

For a room full of such expensive equipment, you would really think they would find a better home for it.

Classic Linus

@@xorinzor That entire room makes me uncomfortable every time I see it!

Brian the electrician, Brian Refrigeration

Brian the refrigerator LOL did you mean to say Brian the air conditioner

He's a real cool-ant, dude!

To be fair to Eaton they did have to give their approval to this video

Companies are always looking for feedback... With no feedback they can not fix anything. Companies who do nothing on feedback fails. SO Eaton hearing that comment will now think, Oh ... I guess that was a bad design on our part... Let us make it better for the customer for the next device.

YamiSpyro2011 Or risk...Linus: our Eaton unit caught on fire...here is our NEW XYZ brand to replace it”.

It's not a problem. This kind of industrial hardware doesnt have to deal with the fickleness of consumers.

@@PlzDontKillDave funny story.. Because the new one did not have the same design flaw and they didnt even hear the comment yet.

Snake? SNAKE? SNAAAAKEEEEE

Looking at it I doubt there's room to get past the UPS and access the servers from the back of the room...
Besides if anyone *really* wants access, that's just a plasterboard wall, magnetic doors or not you could be in there in a few minutes with your bare hands.

Actually, just while I'm on physical security, the main door to the server room has :
1. A big vent in the bottom.
2. Hinges on the outside.
The lock is there only to keep honest people out.

@@davidbarrett6434 likely more to keep any visitors (workmen, delivery people, etc...) from accessing it

Ikr

Yeah, and no explanation, that pallet didn't have any 4x4s in it,

@@jaykoerner It has a 4x4 on one side and two 2x4s for the center support and the other end. Not sure why it's asymmetrical.

@@IndianaTony TLDR: I know too much about pallets
that's weird, but I work at home depot and we get weird pallets from time to time as well, the pallet refurbishers sometimes make Frankenstein pallets, my favorite is when the take the parts of 2 skinny (euro) pallets a make it so that every other board goes to the middle support from a different side instead of every board just going straight across, that and the pallets that are clearly made from the parts of CHEP brand pallets(also called blue pallets, or the broad term is 4 way entry) because they are painted blue, CHEP does their own refrubishing and only rents pallets so once the are no longer being use they are supposed to go back, and not doing so is theft, so that likely happened somewhere else and the pallet was just shipped around

Nice cat

Bruh theres gotta be a subreddit for this... r/kindofwooooshed?

@@potatoesarelyfe4706 bruh what's up with your name noob

Yup that is the joke

@@aarnav3696 like yours is any better?

Actually it's Brian 'The Electrician' Refrigeration

nickname: Electrifying

Destined for greatness

Don't worry, he'll have so much stuff piled in front of those that they'll never open again.

@@FergyA Linus: EEYYY

@@FergyA Not to mention an immovable object(UPS) probably blocking up the entire passage. Thats not something that you can move in a hurry without a lot of swearing and huffing. And probably destroying something along the way.

Originally from Manitoba, can confirm. To be fair, it's more a rural accent, but yes.

@@CanuckGod Can confirm. That dude has merked some walleyes with a jig n a minnow.

i was about to comment on that

did he say bonfire or barn fire xd

Canadian Santa over here

The beard makes up for any emasculation.

That's what I thought.

5000 IQ robbery.

Well, i mean, if those batteries block the rest of the space, it isn't going to be easy to move them.

Lol exactly

I mean, from what I see, you can only really access the UPS from the magnetic doors.
And that UPS is *SO* heavy, especially with all the batteries and power units on. Would you expect someone to try and steal that?
Plus it is not like the black market for $2000 batteries is very big. No one would buy a used Eaton battery from a random guy that does not have a receipt.
In comparison, some of the servers in the front are a lot more valuable and a lot lighter. It is also a lot easier to sell standard server hardware than specialized battery equipment.
And I guess when Linus moved to that office, he was scared that someone may try to do funny business to his servers, but he realized that no one even tried to enter his building since 2015 so he does not care anymore.

Big Brain

Part of being smart is knowing what you know and knowing what you dont know. I've met mensa members who could barely do a simple task physically.

​@@Michael-lg4wz may i know what kind of physical task they couldn't do ? just kinda curios not trying to debunk your story. Thanks :D

@@azew8402 and he never responded..

@@TheAlbaniaGaming it's kinda too short a time to make that conclusion, don't you think?

i do remember on wan telling he bought the wrong one

Omg yes lol. I died. Also the way they would have to mount the 2or it wouldnt lift the unit by 4 inches. It would only lift it by 2. If we are being technical it would lift it by 1.5 inches

everyone knows 2x4 is just a catch all for piece of wood that someone has lying around

@@Lucidilluminate I believe the plan was to use the 2 by 4's on their side to get 4 inches of lift, which would have been sketchy AF lol

@@WyattWinters yeah it would have. Also in any type of construction, carpentry, furniture making etc job no one says 2x4's for scrap pieces of board. Idk what the other guy means. It's a good thing he used the 4x4. It was probably a little safer

2x2

@@xavier6foot8 There are different types of plastics. some with Fire retardant chemicals added, and others that dont

@@xavier6foot8 technically 'to combust' means to be consumed by fire. while you're correct that plastic melts rather than burns (because it's a product of petroleum), it technically still combusts.

Avery Thompson plastic definitely catches on fire

Well he's just gonna use them for cables, I don't think he meant it was going to be filled with bins rather the bins probably wouldn't take much space at all.

@@xavier6foot8 Plastic is basically solid oil.

People, please Like this comment so we can finally stop worrying about good ol' Linus and the crew...

its really no need for what linus has. i think that was a human mistake and its better like he said in the video to make a control every 6 months or every year

@@TheGentry000 No, Mohammad is right, that is a commercial facility with an obviously unsafe server room. It is just a disaster waiting to happen.

Good recommendation but a VESDA smoke detection system along with proper electrical maintenance should suit his application. FM200 may be expensive, and it seems as though the place is cramped enough already to worry about piping and cylinder installation.

I love Linus and it's awesome how he built up his company, but having this as a "server room" is just begging for a catastrophe to happen. Putting 100's of thousands in equipment into a basically hole in a wall, I just can't understand. I've seen a mainframe room and how the whole building was built around it, taking into consideration every major requirement (climatisation, battery backup, huge generator backup, fire suppression system, noise isolation etc). More and more companies couldn't even exist if something happened to their IT infrastructure, and still they cheap out on making it more reliable/robust.

In the credits:
" *Floor* " - Floor the floor

Where is the link to download him?

@@emeraldwolf1963 Floor gang ough

Aceoyame I'm sure that they do this at this point for comedic value.. they probably make more money from posting fail videos and seeing all the views
I mean sure the tech could assume that it should have been done this way and that way from the factory, but if you've never done something before.. as a professional read the manual. always read the manual..
if you're at home and it's whatever sure try doing it without the manual. but not professionally..

Was totally thinking the same; as IT engineer; holy crap, seeing this got me so mad ahah; how the f**k did this server room is not on fire every week !

The worst one for me was the video where they were filling the rack back up from top to bottom.

Hey, mind if I ask if I should take any special precautions with an APC smart UPS 1000 I keep in my bedroom to power 2 QNAP NAS? Seeing this video got me slightly worried.

@@LemonRush7777 should be fine as long as it's able to exhaust it's heat properly and doesn't have any liquid sources or anything particularly flamable nearby

Not to mention most of these companies use cheap zink bolts, locks, and nuts. Also good for them to check the bus bar because it oxidizes over time. Especially copper.

Our sparkies just did that a couple months ago.

Every enterprise I've worked for had the server room door as one of the most secure in the building. Obvious because all the valuable data is behind that door.

Masiosare II The data is certainly backed up elsewhere, but the hardware is hundreds of thousands of dollars, plus the days of lost productivity.

To be fair the UPS probably plugged in most of the hole and it is so heavy to move, it can be considered as immoveable.

In the future they will need to change it to 'brian the refrigerant', I hope.

i need a 10hr loop of that song

Also brcause his arms are the size of Linus' legs.

@@jimsvideos7201 OMG LOL'd so hard at this

sorry but jugging from his face movements he doesnt like he is paid for this... he is there just for the glory !

@@user-ox8lo4cl6b He's literally a hired electrician - He's paid for time on jobs this is just free advertising

And you don't want your employer dead under a huge UPS. Lol...

NSA Approved.

It's probably not for physical security

There is chance backdoor are locked from inside, so first you need to open front door, unlock backdoor from inside of the room and then you can open it from outside. The same way as second door in wardrobe are locked. Simple mechanism, but you need to get inside first.

I think the door is for soundproofing. Servers are notoriously loud. I've been in ones that are at 100db

Free hard drives for ALL!

Cue the cameradude taking a few steps back

@@arifijan Voice in backgraound at the time, "I'm not!"

to be fair he did say he didn't like them in his server room

Linus the Minus strikes again.

the ups actually failed around a year ago, there is a wan show clip somewhere in which they discuss it. I think Linus was only using squids to keep things running until the replacement ups arrived. he did say it had him on edge not having the redundancy of a battery backup

It was worse a few years ago, he had so many power strips and squids there were multiple times where he accidentally shut down a server with his foot and claimed it had just "crashed"

@@Wiki7202 no not 1 year more like 6 months

I like more that Taran the "Quality Control" is behind the video panel and not visible.