Given the noise coming out...
of our multi-rack HPC, which requires PPE mitigations just to work in the same room alongside it, I'm surprised that spinning disk storage works at ALL!
Rather like the comparison one can make between the energy transfer in the hair cells of the cochlea and the amount of thermal noise from hot blood passing nearby, or working out how stereo-location could possibly work given that neuronal spikes require ~7ms minimum per pulse and the speed of sound in air means that there's just a 700µs time difference for sound arriving at each ear. (Actually, that's achieved in a very clever way indeed - evolution is incredible sometimes).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
