Don't Yell At Hard Drives! They Don't Like Noise

[Apoptosis]

Shouting at disk drive causes high latency according to this post over at engadget.

Here's a tip for everyone who hasn't made the jump to solid state: try to be nice to your disk drive. Brendan Gregg from Sun's Fishworks team wanted to see the effects of vibrations on his disk array, so he proceeded to shout at it. On video. Yeah, we bet that's pretty embarrassing for the drive in question, and what results is a sharp spike the number of I/O operations that take over 5ms to complete. Moral of the story? Yelling at your computer isn't going to make it run any faster. How about next time we see how it reacts to Ozzy, Mozart and warm, gentle nuzzles? We've placed video of Gregg's sadistic hardware taunts after the break.

Pretty interesting and if you have a NAS sitting on your sub woofer you might want to move it.

[DMB2000uk]

Even though I read the blurb first and knew he was going to scream at the drives, It was hilarious when he did it
(It's just as funny that it actually did cause them to lag)

How do you even discover that screaming at them causes lag though? Crazy

Dan

[martini161]

How do you even discover that screaming at them causes lag though? Crazy

Dan

long day at the office?

[Dragon_Cooler]

AHAHAHA wow, i deff dont know if this is really true or not. hrmmmm

[kappage]

That is pretty cool, that must be why when i shout at the tv the reception gets better,



Robots in disguise??