17 years ago, one engineer made a very important discovery: If you shout at data centre HDDs, they slow down
HDDs may be a little box of aluminium, copper, and sometimes ceramics, but their most human trait is apparently that they slow down when you scream at them. One engineer discovered that 17 years ago, and I’m not too sure how. Taking to X, Ben Dicken recently shared this discovery from Brendan Gregg, who is…