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Reply With QuoteI cant speak from personal experience, I dont have a sub.
But my friend insists his sub destroyed his HD. They were pretty close together though.
Your Opinion: Subwoofer effect on HDD
I had an interesting email today asking if my subwoofer being somewhat close to my HDD is causing problems. I have only begun my 3rd month of using the system, but I have had no problems. I do listen to loud music, no question about that. What do you think about a subwoofers effect on a HDD? Could the vibration be causing the disk to vibrate enough to cause contact with the read/write head? My site: http://24.7.157.64/home.html
I cant speak from personal experience, I dont have a sub.
But my friend insists his sub destroyed his HD. They were pretty close together though.
I had my HDD mounted underneath my back seat with (6)12" subs on top of it. The only time I had probelems was when I went to a competition last year and kept locking up the drive when I had it at full tilt. When I was just cruising around I had no proplems with it. Just make sure it cant move around. When I first built it I hadn't secured it yet and it fell out from under the seat and boom... no more HDD. My new system will be a little less severe and I am moving the computer parts to a rear quarter panel.
Well, speaking from general knowledge instead of personal experience -
Vibration = BAD
Large Magents = BAD
I'd keep a hard drive as far away from subs as possible.
This has been discussed several times before. Search the board.
I don't belive a verdict was ever reached.
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Aaron Cake
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I'm with Arby on this one. Vibration and heavy magnets near a dainty little piece of spinning magnetic disc is bad. Especially if the data is stored magnetically on little pieces of metal that can be flaked off easily from violent movement.
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Well, in my case, I'm not worried about magnets from the sub. I suppose the only way to find out about vibration is to simply turn up the music! If it dies, it dies. The backup is ready... If it lasts a year, I'll call it a success. If it doesn't, I'll try something to protect the drive from the massive vibration. I wait for the day massive solid state storage is a reasonable alternative.
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