Is it safe to keep the subwoofer on the same surface as the system unit?

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RionRedhand2020-09-07 17:17:31

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RionRedhand, 2020-09-07 17:17:31

The situation is as follows: on one windowsill in front of me is all my favorite hardware: two monitors, a system unit and two speakers with a not very large subwoofer. I accidentally put my hand on the windowsill and felt vibrations on it, and began to fear for the hard drives inside the PC (there are two of them).
I once heard a story that once in some data center they transported a cabinet with a bunch of disks from one building to another, and in the end they (the disks) all immediately filled up, despite the fact that they were transported kind of neatly. Yes, the power of the speaker is not so great (I always listen at a volume of no more than 20%), the distance between the PC and the speaker is 40-50cm, but still there are concerns. Tell me, how justified are they?

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Stalker_RED, 2020-09-07
@Stalker_RED

The subwoofer will sound better if placed on the floor, ideally in the corner of the room.
And yes, vibration can stagger discs, although this is a matter of luck - you still need to get into resonance.

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chupasaurus, 2020-09-07
@chupasaurus

If the vibrations were powerful enough, then you would have been in the know by now.

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VT100, 2020-09-07
@VT100

It's better to move on. For example - by installing HDD on shock absorbers, you do not want to remove the sub from the system unit.
I suspect punches on the table top as an accelerator of the death of the 2GB screw at home and I am completely sure that a punch on the system unit led to the death of 1GB (?) at work.

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lonelymyp, 2020-09-07
@lonelymyp

I don't care, because For many years, powerful speakers stood on the table close to the system unit; at full volume, during frequent drinking, the glasses on the table trembled.

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pindschik, 2020-09-09
@pindschik

Is it safe to kick a running computer? And if instead of a hard drive, which even screams - reduces performance, is there an SSD that is calm about shaking? What if you don't drink too much?
In one data center, the story was a little different - the gas extinguishing system worked there - filling the server room with an inert gas. So the hard drives flew - just from the noise of the gas that was supplied from the pressurized cylinders.
Why don't you analogy with a subwoofer?