"A Sun engineer, Brendan Gregg, also caused disk drives to delay operations by shouting at drives in a JBOD in 2008."
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/16/turning_a_hard_disk_drive_into_an_ear/
Lesson:
if you are a jerk to your computer, it will work slower
leave them in peace and they will produce results faster
@grainloom
my experience is completely different
as i cuss out the hardware/software problem i'm working on
i find my way to the solution
of course, physical damage is something else entirely ...
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