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Harddrive vibration?

ArcticApe
By ArcticApe
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Ive heard a bit about hard drive vibration and it being bad for the harddrive, which makes sense. I got a coolermaster master box 320L that I wanted to put two ironwolf's in. Would vibration be an issue here or is it really just for cases holding 10-20 drives or so?

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Its more an issue for a computer that would be mounted in something that vibrates like a vehicle

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or noise from it when you have several hundred disks in a server room..  but there are usually things that makes more noise than the disks in a server room. 

 

check that it's mounted with rubber plugs between disk and steel. you shouldn't hear a thing. 

 

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no issues, the big issue for vibration from drives is for large racks of full of drives all doing the same thing at the same time

 

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The issue is more with 'outside causes' of vibrations, i.e. a washing machine touching the desk or moving the computer around.

Drives meant for a NAS or server generally have a rating for how many drives they can be in the same case (enclosure) with.

For example, Ironwolf drives are marketed for enclosures up to 8 drives, while Ironwolf Pro drives however are rated for up to 24 drives in a single enclosure.

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32 minutes ago, minibois said:

The issue is more with 'outside causes' of vibrations, i.e. a washing machine touching the desk or moving the computer around.

Drives meant for a NAS or server generally have a rating for how many drives they can be in the same case (enclosure) with.

For example, Ironwolf drives are marketed for enclosures up to 8 drives, while Ironwolf Pro drives however are rated for up to 24 drives in a single enclosure.

I see. The case has some kind of flimsy harddrive mounts, its just two "sticks" that you place on the side and then slide into a cage. No screws or nothing. Would this be an issue when it comes to vibration since it isnt super-duper tight mounted? I'll only be using two drives

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