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Vibration Killing Enterprise Disk Performance?

Posted by timothy on from the aftershocks-even-worse dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Is vibration killing disk performance? ZDnet reports on research that a carbon fiber anti-vibration rack increased random read performance by 56% to 246% and random write [performance] by 34% to 88%. Vibration is a known disk problem, but this is one of the few attempts to quantify its impact — which looks to be much greater than suspected."

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  1. Hmmm... by antifoidulus · · Score: 2, Funny

    So maybe sex in the server room IS a good idea! Not to mention all the puns you can make about racks.

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    1. Re:Hmmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Get off my Rack?

      In Soviet Russia, rack vibrates you?

      All your rack.....?

    2. Re:Hmmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      In Soviet Japan, 512mb is a rack of lamb

  2. Star Trek by robvangelder · · Score: 4, Funny

    Did anyone else think "how is Kirk going get out of this one"?

    1. Re:Star Trek by Bugamn · · Score: 3, Funny

      Using inertial dampers?

  3. Carbon Fibre by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...a carbon fiber anti-vibration rack...

    What is this? Pimp My Rack?; "Next up we'll add a tinted front door, lower the rack by an inch and fit it with diamond-encrusted rack nuts."

  4. good vibrations? by ncohafmuta · · Score: 2, Funny

    i guess the beach boys were wrong about those vibrations.

  5. Re:Females... by setagllib · · Score: 2, Funny

    Paging Dr. Freud...

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