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Re:Server room with seismic isolation floor in Japan earthqu... by PhasmaFelis on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @10:16PM (#14450033)
> All drives broken at the very least, a 10k rpm drive doesn't like ordinary vibrations already, much less 40cm+ displacement in a fraction of a second.

Do commercial server drives not have the same anti-shock tech as laptop drives?

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Re:Server room with seismic isolation floor in Japan earthqu... by rtkwe on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @11:36PM (#14450263)
Drops are easier because there's a gap of free fall before the actual hit so there's time to sense and park the heads. Earthquakes are more instantaneous where the shaking is the first warning the protection can react to.
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