Will my speaker damage my hard drive?

BigRazer93

BigRazer93

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I got my self a pair of Logitech x-210 2.1 for my ipod. One of my speakers is right next to my 800d where my hard drives are kept, my dad said somthing about is it magnetic cased or somthing, i can't remember, but any one let me know if the x-210's will damage them or not?

Thanks
 
Thanks mate, and i do remeber watching a video on youtube with someone breaking one, but the magnet was very close to the disks on the drives :p

My dad also said somthing about the speaker will pull things off my monitor which will go to the computer, will that affect it?
 
Ben-Irvine93 said:
Thanks mate, and i do remeber watching a video on youtube with someone breaking one, but the magnet was very close to the disks on the drives :p

My dad also said somthing about the speaker will pull things off my monitor which will go to the computer, will that affect it?
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I think he was winding you up... :p
 
Haha yeah. I have to be careful with my sub because I realised just how much it vibrated the desk my laptop was on.
Proper sub none of this **** cheap sub lark.
 
Maybe a sealed or reflex sub causes more vibration, but I've found my horn sub only starts to shake things around when you turn it up to obscenely loud levels... When it's at normal level, I just get bass with no vibration of objects.

Even when it is turned up to 11, my computer case is sat on rubber feet, so I'm not really worried about the vibration to the computer... I find the things falling off shelves can be a bit of a distraction however... :eek:
 
Mines a standard sealed sub, but I have laminate flooring and the desk is about 1 meter away. Put your hand on the desk when the sub is going and you can feel the vibration :)
Especially when loud.
 
Alexrose1uk said:
Mines a standard sealed sub, but I have laminate flooring and the desk is about 1 meter away. Put your hand on the desk when the sub is going and you can feel the vibration :)
Especially when loud.
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I haven't got my silly loud horn sub on right now, but I've got some dubstep going a Mackie SRM 450 has reasonable output down to 50Hz, and there is a small about of vibration thru the desk, but not much... I have suspended floorboards, so I guess this could reduce vibration a little...

I really don't think computers mind a little vibration however, the hard disk would be the only think that would 'mind', and if you read the specs they're pretty shock resistant, especially laptop drives. :)
 
Aye, but when everyones out I like to be able to crank, and it pays to be more careful with a RAID setup when the desk is vibrating. Concrete and Laminate seem to be quite good conductors of sub-caused vibration at high level! :D
My sub certainly doesn't lack enthusiasm (tis a Quad sub, I've seen it compared to the BK XLS200).
 
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Yep, I know what you mean, it's nice to be able to turn it up to 11. :D Quad make some nice gear, I've still got a Quad 405 amp somewhere...

Luckily, on my desktop I have my hard drives suspended with elastic, which eliminates vibrations and also reduces HD noise. I'd do this if you can, then you can turn the sub up and not have to worry about data loss... ;)
 
Haha, luckily the laptop in my sig will be using a SSD for the primary when it arrives and RAID/2* single drives as secondary, with the reduction in HDD use I'll hopefully not worry so much about detonating the drives with bass vibration :D
 
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