I remember watching a video about how vibrations can have a negative impact on hard drive latency (Video is at the bottom.): http://blogs.oracle.com/brendan/en

I remember watching a video about how vibrations can have a negative impact on hard drive latency (Video is at the bottom.): http://blogs.oracle.com/brendan/entry/unusual_disk_latency http://blogs.oracle.com/brendan/entry/unusual_disk_latency