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In what Davis referred to as a “freak occurrence,” a one-second power outage at a Boston power station caused the network instability.
Davis said that there was a mechanical glitch in a disk that helps to run the server. He said that engineers came in shortly after and fixed the problem.
“Nothing at this time suggests anything more than a standard, routine hard-drive failure,” Davis said.
Davis said that the outage was just long enough to cause several machines to shut down. The return of electricity caused a power surge, interfering with network computers, but normal service was restored soon thereafter.
Davis said that there has been an effort to improve the consistency and reliability of computer services at Harvard by adding more backup systems.