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Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Don't Shout at your Hard Disks People!

Posted on 10:36 AM by Unknown
I picked this up off of The Register. Apparently shouting at your hard disks really does upset them. According to Sun's Fishworks engineer Brendan Gregg, who explains just how to upset your drive on his blog and with the obligatory YouTube video:

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