Just heard that even screaming can diminish HDD performance. Not true, right?

[Aleksbgbg]

Screaming near a HDD won't lower said HDD's performance right?

[SysAdminInTraining]

Well, it depends. If you are screaming at it, it will get sad and fail to perform. If you are screaming next to it, it'll just be afraid and hide.

 

The only way I find that logical is if you are causing insane amounts of vibration.

[Aleksbgbg]

Just now, SysAdminInTraining said:

Well, it depends. If you are screaming at it, it will get sad and fail to perform. If you are screaming next to it, it'll just be afraid and hide.

 

The only way I find that logical is if you are causing insane amounts of vibration.

Okay. The thing said even little vibrations will do it.

 

Believed it for a second

[SysAdminInTraining]

1 minute ago, Aleksbgbg said:

Okay. The thing said even little vibrations will do it.

 

Believed it for a second

Almost every case in production at this point has things to reduce vibrations, sounds like a troll. You'd see more wear and tear if you had it sitting on a desk powered on.

[frunze]

8 minutes ago, Aleksbgbg said:

Screaming near a HDD won't lower said HDD's performance right?

if that's the case, then a pc owner who plays a death metal & screamo music at high volume everyday would be changing his HDD every two months.

[DrMikeNZ]

Shouting at your hard-drives is not recommended. This should not cause long term damage, but may result in slight increase in latency during the excessive vibration. This is not really an issue outside of fire-alarm tests near file-servers.

[IAEInferno]

1 hour ago, Aleksbgbg said:

Screaming near a HDD won't lower said HDD's performance right?

If your screams were sexy as hell then that would probably get the HDD harder.

[IAEInferno]

51 minutes ago, frunze said:

if that's the case, then a pc owner who plays a death metal & screamo music at high volume everyday would be changing his HDD every two months.

You must be invited at parties all the time.

[Godlygamer23]

3 hours ago, Aleksbgbg said:

Screaming near a HDD won't lower said HDD's performance right?

Whoever told you that is just plain wrong, and I hope they're trolling you. Screaming at it will not affect performance in any way. You might hurt its self esteem, but it'll be fine.

[dalekphalm]

17 hours ago, DrMikeNZ said:

Shouting at your hard-drives is not recommended. This should not cause long term damage, but may result in slight increase in latency during the excessive vibration. This is not really an issue outside of fire-alarm tests near file-servers.

Watching that guy shout into a 24-drive disk cage was probably the most enjoyable thing I've done all day

[Sunshine1868]

On 9/22/2016 at 5:34 AM, Godlygamer23 said:

Whoever told you that is just plain wrong, and I hope they're trolling you. Screaming at it will not affect performance in any way. You might hurt its self esteem, but it'll be fine.

Careful with your broad strokes there, Mod..... high performance drives can be affected by the slightest abnormalities in a datacenter. when a high performance array is busy moving data at high speeds even a shout is enough to cause a read error. no, you won't lose data, no it won't break the disk, but when you're watching a performance graph, you can see R/W errors occurring...