Remember: don't yell at your hard drives

[jducoeur]

Thanks to Aaron for passing on this delightful demonstration of an unexpected hardware effect. (Warning, involves a very noisy YouTube movie.) It's one of the better illustrations that hardware problems can have unobvious causes...

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[eclecticmagpie.livejournal.com]

Hey, he got that from me! It actually came from an audio tech list I subscribe to; there's a real-world problem with multi-track recording direct-to-disk failing in high SPL environments such as rock concerts. Not only does the drive stutter, but since that behavior wasn't predicted, the recorder interprets the stuttering as a more serious problem and drops out of record mode entirely. Nothing a large RAM buffer couldn't solve.