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Unraveling Latency Issues and YouTube Fame
This chapter recounts a detailed debugging session in 2008 where a drive's high latency was traced back to loose screws causing vibration. The hosts explore the sensitivity of rotating disk drives to vibrations, including inducing vibrations with sounds to uncover issues. The discussion shifts to a humorous incident of a homemade video screaming at hard drives going viral on YouTube, outshining even official marketing materials.