On the subject of vibrations when using multiple drives in a case (tower), I'm using silicone grommets on all the drive screws to isolate vibrations. This does seem to greatly reduce the vibrations reaching the chassis, and makes the machine a lot quieter, and so I would expect that this minimises the vibrations transferred between drives via the chassis. In turn I would expect that this greatly reduces errors related to high vibration levels when reading and writing: less vertical head movement, leading to less variation in write signal strength.
Cheers, Simon http://breden.org.uk/2008/03/02/a-home-fileserver-using-zfs/ -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
