Apparently sound waves can negatively affect data centers. Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

Now, I’m not saying we should all go stand outside a data center and start shouting… but apparently sound waves can negatively affect server performance. Back when data centers relied heavily on spinning hard drives, engineers discovered that vibrations could interfere with disk operations and increase latency. Most people would have tested this with expensive equipment. Engineer Brendan Gregg had a different idea. He walked up to a rack of servers and started screaming. As ridiculous as it sounds, it worked. The sound vibrations affected the hard drives, causing measurable performance drops in real time. What looks like a joke today became one of the most memorable demonstrations of how physical forces can impact computer systems. Sometimes the best engineering lessons come from the dumbest sounding experiments. #Data #Computer #computerscience #ai #cs