Linked by weildish on Fri 9th Jan 2009 03:25 UTC
A recent YouTube video by Sun's Fishworks Lab's Brendan Gregg proves that vibrations (including shouting) will cause hard drives' latency to spike. But then, he only shouted at it angrily. Who's to say that perhaps blasting Mozart in your server room will cause the latency to drop? Perhaps telling each hard drive that he or she is special may even make their capacities grow!
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2005-07-07
I find it hard to believe that yelling at your computer directly contributes to it running poorly. I will say that doing ANYTHING, especially computer related, with a cool head will usually yield better results. My laptop has been acting up for months now and it finally seemed to kick the bucket two days ago when it couldn't make it past the entire boot process if it even posted. I was a bit frustrated because It isn't that old and I was expecting it to last a long time. I immediateley ripped though it disassembling the entire thing and checking all the connections, cursing the entire time. I didn't end up getting it working again until today when I had a cooler head and slowly eliminated possible problems. It's working beautifully again, better than it has been in months.