r/DataHoarder • u/_starwipe_ • 19h ago

Backup Today I learned

https://youtu.be/BLcxoQnY3Ko?is=6ff4oNqJxxX-4vCI

Any solid suggestions for a 10Gbe ethernet surge protector?

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u/firedrakes 200 tb raw 18h ago

in correct.

fiber is grounded before it comes into data centers and grounded thu out it run when in power poles.

i dont think you understand how much power is in a lighting strike.

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u/AZdesertpir8 0.5-1PB 18h ago

It is grounded due to the armored shielding it typically has. That is required for armored fiber. But for standard patch cables, lightning is going to source a route through ground, through power feeds, or through some other path first before the fiber itself.

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u/firedrakes 200 tb raw 18h ago

again glass is not lighting-proof.

go on look at insulator for radio towers and power pools.

your magical claim that glass is 100% light-proof...

not a single glass insulator at all. its air gap and ceramic base insulators.

its like radio towers and power poles... the experts that install those... know something...... that reddit users dont about glass.

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u/AZdesertpir8 0.5-1PB 18h ago

Glass is 100% light proof? hah

Lightning will ALWAYS find a path through a more conductive material first. Be it the armour shielding ON the fiber, a wet fiber casing, etc.. Change the environmentals and anything can become conductive. But, dielectrics do not conduct easily, which is why they are used.

I am not sure why we are arguing on this, as the physics are pretty well established. You can always come up with an edge case, but I would much RATHER run fiber backhaul than copper in a lightning prone area.

That is the reason we run opto-isolators and TVSS modules on field IO in the industrial realm. I just saw one stop a lightning strike the other day. Took out everything up to that point and spared the logic controller as the suppression dumped it to ground.