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I bought a sound system of ~1000 watts for my HTPC and I was wondering:
how close should my computer and/or hard drives be from it in order to prevent sound and/or magnetic damage?
Thanks
Also please provide me some proof or your background of your awesome knowledge :)
update: it's my HTPC (duh :p) and my external hard drive lives in the same room as the system
I suspect your neighbours would complain before your HDD gets damaged. Are you worried about damage from sound, or the actual vibration of the speakers? I wouldn't worry about magnetic damage, computers are fairly well shielded – Journeyman Geek – 2013-05-09T02:23:02.623
Just a note, vibration on HDD is also can be bad. And vibration can be caused by your speaker vibration, or simple noise (loud noise). This is a video of someone demonstrating that screaming at your HDD (in a data center) actually cause data transfer spike -> www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4
This may not apply too much to you, but something for you to consider as loud noise / vibration can cause the HDD to halt temporarily when it detected vibration/misalignment when accessing data. – Darius – 2013-05-09T03:11:54.040