Didier Kryn said on Wed, 6 Dec 2023 11:57:05 +0100

>Le 05/12/2023 à 17:13, Steve Litt a écrit :
>> Martin Steigerwald said on Tue, 05 Dec 2023 11:24:30 +0100
>>
>>
>>> Steve talked about using a monster spinning disk in his mail not for
>>> backup purposes, but for example for "/var" and "/home" I think, I
>>> bet for his workstation. My comment was related to that. I would not
>>> tolerate such a disk in my workstation nowadays anymore I bet.
>> Yeah, it's loud. Of course, I have about 6 fans spinning at full
>> speed constantly, which is the main component of my noise. I want
>> everything running cool in my computer, and for me (YMMV), 35 db or
>> whatever isn't the end of the world. Heck, I used to code 8 hours a
>> night in a computer room with bunches of Vaxes, PDP-11s, and full
>> size suction controlled reel to reel 9 track tape drives, and I
>> lived to tell about it. Of course I'm halfway deaf now. Was it that
>> computer room, the 90db factory I used to work in, or the rock
>> concerts or the parties with the stereo cranked up to 100db? I don't
>> know. And of course being halfway deaf makes it easier to put up
>> with fan noise :-).
>     You know the thing that you should never do because it makes you
>blind -- but which everyone does. For people of English culture it
>make you blind. In France it used to make you deaf. Of course nobody
>tells that anymore to children and it was even never told to me; I
>learned it from jokes. But it is always satisfactory to understand the
>cause of things, therefore I suggest this explanation :-)
>
>     More seriously, when I was working at CERN, where many
> electronics
>racks are used with very noisy fans, a study was published which
>showed that you become deaf to certain frequencies emitted by the fans
>but you recover audition capability if you stop being exposed to these
>frequencies for some time. I think mostly very high power noise or
>music, and of course ageing, can cause permanent audidion loss.

Makes sense. I don't want to say I'm old, but I was one of Alexander
the Great's tutors.

SteveT

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