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Loud sounds can kill hard drives

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Loud sounds can kill hard drives

Tuesday 18th October 2016 11:00 am

In our complex world, the cure can sometimes be as bad as the original problem. For example, you would think that if you had a fire in a data centre, it would make sense to deprive the fire of oxygen by flooding the room with an inert gas. But what if the noise of the escaping gas is loud enough to kill the spinning hard drives—potentially causing more damage than the fire?

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