On Aug 22, 2009, at 2:12 PM, Tony B wrote:
No, you will have a hard time convincing me a fan of any type could
vibrate
enough to cause an r/w error on a drive. But be aware - cosmic rays
*can*
cause errors. Not as many as 'normal' causes, but surely it
happens. Anyway,
that's what chkdsk is
Then it's just another case of people neglecting to change the subject line.
No, you will have a hard time convincing me a fan of any type could vibrate
enough to cause an r/w error on a drive. But be aware - cosmic rays *can*
cause errors. Not as many as 'normal' causes, but surely it happens. An
At 10:35 AM 8/22/2009, Tony B wrote:
>Certainly neither of you is suggesting his slow boot has to do with his
>drive being vibrated by a fan
Not directly, but fan vibration could cause an imperfect write leading to later
slow reads. If the reads are part of the boot process, then the boot pr
> Certainly neither of you is suggesting his slow boot has to do with his
> drive being vibrated by a fan
No, they're two different issues. I have the slow-booting PC. Someone else has
a system where the HDD seems to be affected by vibration from the fan.
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We should be clear, they were talking about HD's being affected by
vibration...NOT vibrators. Unless you are visiting the adult boutique and
putting some purple monsters inside your computer case?
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Tony B wrote:
>
>
> But maybe I shouldn't have said anything, and
I haven't been following this thread, but after seeing this post this
morning I had to go back and look. And I just have to ask: How the heck did
you guys get off in some apparently completely different direction here?
Certainly neither of you is suggesting his slow boot has to do with his
drive b
