[Gllug] Cheapish NAS.

[JLMS]

On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Nix <nix at esperi.org.uk> wrote:
> On 19 Feb 2010, tethys at gmail.com uttered the following:
>> solutions continue to use enterprise grade drives, in part because of
>> the extra reliability, but also (with my cynical hat on[1]), because
>> of the higher markup on those drives.
>
> Also because they allegedly are more robust when exposed to the constant
> vibration of the other disks in the array. I don't know if anyone's
> ever publically studied this (maybe by screaming at the disks ;) )


Somebody actually did. They screamed at the disks as  a prank and then
checked how they were behaving, performance was affected drastically
(sorry don't have numbers, there must be videos out there).
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