Bad, bad, bad vibrations | ZDNet
Interesting article where they measure the effects of vibrations on hard drive performance. Seems that drives exposed to vibrations - even those created by adjacent disk drives in the same chassis - can perform as much as 50+% lower than a vibration-free drive.
And here we all are with disk drive equipped dvr's sitting on, near or around televisions and home theater setups that are full of speakers blatting out loads of vibrations.
There are ways to help isolate some components from some vibrations, but I'd think a subwoofer anywhere in the room with a hard drive equipped electronics device would affect it.
Might be an interesting reason why some people feel their dvr's are slower than others. The guy with the slow dvr might simply have bigger speakers.
Interesting article where they measure the effects of vibrations on hard drive performance. Seems that drives exposed to vibrations - even those created by adjacent disk drives in the same chassis - can perform as much as 50+% lower than a vibration-free drive.
And here we all are with disk drive equipped dvr's sitting on, near or around televisions and home theater setups that are full of speakers blatting out loads of vibrations.
There are ways to help isolate some components from some vibrations, but I'd think a subwoofer anywhere in the room with a hard drive equipped electronics device would affect it.
Might be an interesting reason why some people feel their dvr's are slower than others. The guy with the slow dvr might simply have bigger speakers.
