Le 06/12/2023 à 21:50, Steve Litt a écrit :
> 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.

    I'm old and have lost part of my auditive capability, for some of
the reasons exposed. But I'm not yet wise enough for Philip to choose me
as a tutor for his son.

    If you stop hearing those disks and fans, you'll recover.

--     Didier