Hard Disk Drives (HDD’s) are one of the most impressive and important electromechanical devices ever created. The mechanics of HDD vibration is an obscure subject, and as a result, there is an aura of mystery surrounding vibration ...
The numbers are always mind-boggling to me. The precision, speed and reliability, all in a cheap mass-produced object. I suppose when you compare it to the chips themselves, those are also amazing. But HDDs just seem like they should be impossible.
curl -I -X GET www.ept.ca/features/everything-need-know-hard-drive-vibration/
curl: (28) Failed to connect to www.ept.ca port 80 after 75027 ms: Couldn't connect to server
Not using any VPNs from my end
It seems like drives would be better off with their own built in isolation. Wonder why it doesn’t work out that way. Elasticity of the materials and the gap between the axle and the arm? Space?
The best drive enclosures I’ve worked on used laminated steel. Steel-plastic-steel in order to absorb the vibrations. Worked great, but for some reason this isn’t widely used in the industry, as if the laminated steel guys don’t have good sales people.
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[ 9.1 ms ] story [ 213 ms ] threadedit: here it is! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4
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