On 19 October 2012 10:09, <gr...@zeta.org.au> wrote: > Not many people are aware, but I was surprised, after discussing with some > engineers a few years ago, that the physical vibrations of equipment in > their racks can actually cause power increases and performance issues > purely as a result of the vibrations interfering with disk seek times and > so on. The sympathetic vibrations of the disk and media is actually > perceptible when tests are run. As the vibrations are constant, this will > affect the way the heads on the disk access the data. When the vibrations > were suppressed, disk seeks improved commensurately and a noted decrease in > power consumption and response time was noted. >
Reminds me of this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
