I am worried that externally caused vibrations might damage my HDDs (NAS in the planning). The subway / metro runs under my building, and every time the train passes, this causes slight but measurable vibrations in the 50-100 Hz frequency range. It is more like a rumbling noise than the usual vibration of a passing train.
I’ve been researching the topic of vibration dampening on and off, and things like sorbothane popped up in my search. I also remember finding foam plates in an eye scorching yellow material.
My plan is to set up the case, fire up a measuring app on my phone (say phybox or the like) and test a few options. But I figured, I can’t be the first person to be guarding against outside vibrations. :D
Other than the usual 3-2-1 and backup regularly, what can I actually do? I would like to make sure that the lifespan of the HDDs doesn’t get too negatively impacted, so the chances of a catastrophic failure, as well as having to invest 1k EUR every couple of years is reduced as much as possible. Thanks!
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Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters NAS Network-Attached Storage RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage SATA Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage SSD Solid State Drive mass storage
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You could put the case on something flexible like a rubber mat to reduce vibrations. Another option is to do a all SSD build.
The last option is to just blow up the train and the rails.
Maybe some foam under the case could elliminate some of those vibrations. Like pieces of a yoga mat or similar mats.
There are also heavy mats available in the hardware store, to put your washing machine on.
Replace them with SSD’s?
Your seek-time drops to near-zero,
your throughput increases to SATA ( or your motherboard’s SATA controller ) speed,
and you become absolutely-immune to such vibrations.
I cannot understand using rotating-disk drives in any notebook machine, under any circumstances, ever, for the last decade or so.
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