Seems like it would have to either stop the drive, maybe triggering shock protection, or make it read incorrect data, which could be possible if the read head's correction mechanism was resonating. If its delay was half the sound's frequency, it would try to correct in the same direction as its being pushed by the sound, causing the feedback loop for resonance.
Unfortunately, Raymond Chen repeats the disproven theory that resonance caused the collapse of the Tacoma-Narrows bridge. [1]
> According to the two engineers, the failure of the bridge was related to a wind-driven amplification of the torsional oscillation that, unlike a resonance, increases monotonically with increasing wind speed.
But I'm kinda going to wait to believe it until someone tries to reproduce it. Should be simple enough, just get some old old laptops, and play a sine wave sweep until they do something. Get on it, science clickbait youtubers!
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[ 0.19 ms ] story [ 34.9 ms ] threadBasically the same principle that allows an Opera singer to crack a wine glass by singing at a specific pitch very loudly.
that's how you can use sound to shatter glass. or why the tacoma narrows bridge collapsed.
in this case the sound included a frequency that affected the laptops harddisks which are obviously sensitive to shaking
> According to the two engineers, the failure of the bridge was related to a wind-driven amplification of the torsional oscillation that, unlike a resonance, increases monotonically with increasing wind speed.
[1] https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/PT.3.299...
But I'm kinda going to wait to believe it until someone tries to reproduce it. Should be simple enough, just get some old old laptops, and play a sine wave sweep until they do something. Get on it, science clickbait youtubers!
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/498192-the-paraphrase-of-g-...