Vibration Killing Enterprise Disk Performance?

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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Sun engineers catching disk vibration in the act

[Anonymous Coward]

If you want to have a laugh, check out Bryan Cantrill (Mr. DTrace) and Sun engineer Brendan Gregg shouting at disks and checking out latency heat graphs on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4

I like this attempt more

[Mezga0153]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4

Damn it Mr. Scott!

[NevarMore]

I cannae stop the vibrations cap'n. The flux cores are fissioning at 150% beyond their rated nebular rate!