Can rapid speed cause issues?

**HiJackZX1** · 03-15-2009, 06:59 PM

Yesterday I started to notice a new issue. There is a small straight away before you get to my house, so I decided to floor it. Upon doing so the PC started to stutter really bad. I had to wait a few seconds and it started to play music as normal. I then decided to get on the high way and floor it and the PC become stuck in the stutter, I had to reset the system.

What could cause that? Is it because of the G force from acceleration? A SSD is starting to look mighty good. What can I do with all my media if I do decided to put a SSD in my setup? Currently I have a Toshiba drive that has 250GB, I have it set up vertically, maybe I should put it horizontal?

**nobb** · 03-15-2009, 07:08 PM

Voltage surge? Revving your engine would spin the alternator faster. Try putting a multimeter to your electrical system and see if the voltage surges when you rev it up.

Im pretty sure most cars cant produce enough g-force from accelerating or cornering to noticeably affect a hard drive. You probably get more shock from hitting a large bump than you do from speed.

**PaulF** · 03-15-2009, 07:14 PM

Are you using a desktop hard drive or a laptop drive?

**freeflashstuff** · 03-15-2009, 07:30 PM

Subscribed.
Hope that doesn't happen to me.... I would have to rip someone's head off!

**HiJackZX1** · 03-15-2009, 07:36 PM

Originally Posted by PaulF

Are you using a desktop hard drive or a laptop drive?

Its a Laptop drive. Isnt the OPUS 320 supposed to eliminate surges and spikes?

**PaulF** · 03-15-2009, 08:10 PM

Originally Posted by HiJackZX1

Its a Laptop drive. Isnt the OPUS 320 supposed to eliminate surges and spikes?

I really don't think surges and spikes are the issue here. I could be wrong, but I bet it's the motion.

**Bugbyte** · 03-15-2009, 09:52 PM

Almost invariably, a stuttering problem is first suspected as the disk drive and usually turns out to be a connector or additional card. It is almost never the disk drive. I doubt the car can put enough g forces out to make the drive stutter.

Do you have a PCI card? Are you sure all connectors for power and data are solid and connected well?

**DarquePervert** · 03-16-2009, 07:24 AM

Youd have to accelerate with some pretty serious G's to affect a HDD like that. We're talking the acceleration of a top-fuel dragster, and even then I don't know if that would produce enough G force to affect a properly working HDD.

**Rick99TAWS6** · 03-16-2009, 08:24 AM

agree with above - and a Durango is just not gonna be that quick(assuming that is the vehicle you are talking about), I am running a desktop drive in a lowered/modded 2000 TransAm(running low 12's in the quarter mile while logging ECU data and real time ECU tuning to boot) and no problem with G's here(makes me think this is another justification for the fusion brain accelerometer though

**Enforcer** · 03-16-2009, 11:02 AM

Make you don't have a keyboard that has something near it that when you accelerate can press the buttons.

I once had a keyboard temporarily connected in the boot and was driving along the motorway when the sound kept going up and the music was stuttering, turned out to be something kept going on the keys when I went round the bends and then off when I went round an opposite bend. Bear in mind the bends on motorways aren't that severe.