A properly balanced Hard Drive will last longer and perform better due to it's increased efficiency.
I can (using tools from work) perform this balancing service for you for $20 (you pay shipping both ways). What ends up happening is that, during the normal course of using your computer, files get moved, created and deleted. De-fragmenting your drive will put all the files towards the center and closer to the spindle but defrag does not take into consideration file sizes. If you end up with too many large files grouped together, your hard drive becomes unbalanced. Though this is very slight and not even noticeable to the human eye... the computers read/write heads do see this and will slow the drives RPM's down to compensate for the unbalanced hardrive.
What I will do, is to make sure that the large and small files are properly spaced out. Thus your computer does not need to slow the drives RPM down, which in turn is a better performing computer. This service should be performed every so often based on your computer usage.
For more information, contact me at jason@jasonjenkins.com.
A properly balanced Hard Drive will last longer and perform better due to it's increased efficiency.
I have had my 60GB for about 6 years now. How could I ask for it to last longer than that. It is still running good by the way. Not to make you mad but what good will it do. When I bought this 60GB hard drive it cost me $400. This is when 60GB first came out and it was the biggest you could get in the retail market. You can now buy and 120GB for around $50.
I thought that, in terms of the magnetic properties of a disk, a 1 weighed the same as a 0?
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Never mind Jason, I agree with you. An unbalanced hard drive can be dangerous too, because they rotate so fast, if it came apart, you could be hurt by the shrapnal.
On a related note, you need to keep your hard drives carefully leveled too. Data can easily become corrupted because the 1's are fairly stable, but the zeros, being round, have a tendency to roll off from their assigned locations, causing file curruption and lost data.
I recently had my hard drive balanced in my laptop and it cost me $120 so I think Jason's fee is more than reasonable. Even at $120, the balancing was well worth it as it has completely eliminated the vibrations coming from inside the computer.
To save the need for 200 more April fool threads today, check out virtually every story posted on Slashdot today. Well I say today ... the internet remained reasonably sane until America got its ass outta bed :P
An unbalanced hard drive can be a very dangerous thing! If the vibrational frequency of the slightly unbalanced hard drive platter is close to the same frequency as a slightly unbalanced owner, the "vibes" will constructivley interfere, causing severe unbalance in both the hard drive and it's owner. The owner can wind up in the psych ward permanently if the situation is allowed to persist. ;-)
An unbalanced hard drive can be a very dangerous thing! If the vibrational frequency of the slightly unbalanced hard drive platter is close to the same frequency as a slightly unbalanced owner, the "vibes" will constructivley interfere, causing severe unbalance in both the hard drive and it's owner. The owner can wind up in the psych ward permanently if the situation is allowed to persist. ;-)
It would explain the entire content of the rant forum though : )
An unbalanced hard drive can be a very dangerous thing! If the vibrational frequency of the slightly unbalanced hard drive platter is close to the same frequency as a slightly unbalanced owner, the "vibes" will constructivley interfere, causing severe unbalance in both the hard drive and it's owner. The owner can wind up in the psych ward permanently if the situation is allowed to persist. ;-)
It would explain the entire content of the rant forum though : )
I have 2 computers for a total of 6 hard drives. Ranging from 20gig to 200gig. None has ever had a data loss, crash or any other problem. 2 of them are mounted with zip ties because I ran out of proper space.
