So I recently acquired a quite splendid sound system at a very steep price cut, the Logitech z-5500.
I must say I am loving it so far, especially at the 40 or so percent price drop I purchased it for. However, as I was quietly contemplating in my not so quiet room with the sub-woofer turned up all the way and the volume at somewhere near 40-45%, I started to consider the ramifications of the quite powerful vibrations caused by the sub-woofer on such fragile things as my hard drives. I figure that what is loud enough to make the pans audibly vibrate in the kitchen more than 15ft away through a very thick wall can't be good on something that spins at 7200rpm constantly reading and writing information.
I however have little actual knowledge into the subject so I turn to the helpful nerd population of Facepunch, who have helped me so much in the past. What are your views, theories and ideas on the subject and if there is a present danger, what would you recommend?
Just as long as your hard drive isn't rested on top of the speaker, it sould be a-ok.
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I think the answer is to listen to your music at an acceptable volume.
Hard drives are tested to be able to work in ambient vibration and there are also hard drives that can handle vibration more than regural hard drives, for example those which you can use in car.
[QUOTE=GWMCOCD;25417993]Just as long as your hard drive isn't rested on top of the speaker, it sould be a-ok.
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"EEEUUAAAHHHHHAAAAAAAA!!!"
Good reason not to yell at your computer when it's not working. It'll just work less.
If you're extremely paranoid about it, you could switch to SSDs. Of course, as others said, hard drives can handle a pretty good amount of vibration. It's mainly being dropped that causes problems.
Hard Drives create their own vibration anyway. If you don't mount them in a case properly, they can be pretty fucking loud too. So I deduct from this that they're vibration-proof. To an extent. Said extent probably being above the levels of vibrations your sub will create.
If my HDDs can survive this
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(can for size comparison)
im pretty sure yours will survive that.
It's safe. Something loud enough to damage your hard drive would be loud enough to tear your ear drums.
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Reminds me of
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I blast my surround sound speakers and my harddrive is doing just fine.
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