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Quiet Please! Noise slows your storage down

Moving the datacenter to our new location

Quiet Please! Noise slows your storage down

Did you know?

Disk are constantly storing more data on the same space.

But with the higher data density, disks are becoming increasingly sensitive to noise.

Excessive noise will damage modern drives, see my other blogs about inert gas damaging hard drives.

 

But not only excessive noise from a fire extinguishing wil impact your disks.

Any louder noise is hurting performance  of modern rotating spindle disks.

4 June, 2022
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