6 comments

  • hinkley 4 hours ago
    It seems like drives would be better off with their own built in isolation. Wonder why it doesn’t work out that way. Elasticity of the materials and the gap between the axle and the arm? Space?
  • nefarious_ends 8 hours ago
    I recall a video of a guy temporarily reducing hard drive performance by shouting at it

    edit: here it is! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4

    • 29athrowaway 7 hours ago
      That is not just any guy though. He is the guy.
      • elijahwright 7 hours ago
        The guy if you care about systems performance, in a detailed way, for sure!

        Someone ask him how many OS kernel bugs he’s found now? He finds the weirdest things… a tally would be “interesting”.

    • amelius 8 hours ago
      next try shouting at a wafer stepper
  • asdefghyk 4 days ago
    Hard Disk Drives (HDD’s) are one of the most impressive and important electromechanical devices ever created. The mechanics of HDD vibration is an obscure subject, and as a result, there is an aura of mystery surrounding vibration ...
    • HPsquared 5 hours ago
      The numbers are always mind-boggling to me. The precision, speed and reliability, all in a cheap mass-produced object. I suppose when you compare it to the chips themselves, those are also amazing. But HDDs just seem like they should be impossible.
      • rubatuga 5 hours ago
        Bought some 26TB HAMR drives recently. It uses solid state lasers to heat up the drive before writing. I shucked them from some Seagate external drive enclosures so we'll see how long my data will last. They're so new there's no failure data on them
        • SoftTalker 4 hours ago
          I remember when I bought my first hard drive. It held 20MB and I was sure I’d never fill it.
  • vivzkestrel 5 hours ago
    curl -I -X GET www.ept.ca/features/everything-need-know-hard-drive-vibration/ curl: (28) Failed to connect to www.ept.ca port 80 after 75027 ms: Couldn't connect to server Not using any VPNs from my end
  • jmclnx 8 hours ago
    I could not get to the article, so from the wayback machine:

    https://web.archive.org/web/20250613075332/https://www.ept.c...