Re: CVE-2022-38392: 5400 RPM hard drives resonant-frequency attack with music video

Woozy Song <[email protected]> Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:48:36 +0800
Newsgroups alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <[email protected]>
VanguardLH wrote:
> 
> But couldn't adjacent 5400 RPM HDDs generate vibrations at frequencies
> to cause the same effect?  Be interesting to see what effect the same
> testing (for the yell test) would disclose if the 5400 RPM HDDs were
> physically separate into separate racks with each rack using vibration
> dampeners.
> 

I worked for a geophysical company about 15 years ago. They had a 
number-crunching cluster (a mere 2 MW for comparison to AI datacentres). 
A whole rack of pizza boxes was apparently taken out by vibration in one 
drive crashing the other hard drives in the rack.