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!
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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They’re taking about a NAS though?
As long as you use the right kind of SSD, there aren’t any problems with doing this.
Oh for sure, it’s just a loot more expensive
Just rob a few banks, go to prison, meet a coke dealer, get out of prison and start selling coke, rise up the ranks until you can kill the current leader and become a drug kingpin, and finally realize that you still don’t have enough money for it because they are expensive as shit.
I might have to downvote you. After all that, you could probably afford one. Forget a RAID though.
Can you elaborate on “the right kind”, do you mean the NAS grade ssd’s?
Yes, there are NAS grade SSD’s that can be used.
I have 3 Intel S3700’s, one for the OS and two 400GB ones for a mirror pool (might do a raidz1 as well). But getting anything in a serious capacity (8-12 TB of usable storage) with datacenter SSDs is really expensive. :(