Thursday, March 26, 2009

A hard drive flaw in the 8.9-inch Acer Aspire

When AMD comes to mobile systems, Intel has clearly been ruling the ground firmly with their various Centrino platform variants over time,I belive it can add more technologyProduction eg:Lasers Produces In Room and Mobile technology.
It looks like any 8.9-inch Aspire One owners out there may want to refrain from playing music full blast through the netbook's speakers for the time being, as some users have found that it can have the unfortunate side effect of completely trashing the hard drive. According to reports on the HardwareCult forum, the problem only affects Aspire One netbooks with standard hard drives, not SSDs, and it arises when the right speaker causes enough vibration and / or magnetic interference to throw the hard drive into a tizzy, leading to a whole host of errors and even some potential data loss. Apparently, the problem was first discovered when someone played U2's "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" at maximum volume, which has since conveniently proven to be an effective tool for reproducing the problem -- not recommended, of course. No word if the new album has any effect.
I'm sure Acer will release a 'patch' for this that will simply prevent the sound driver to go beyond a certain level. there is basically no fix for existing models unless they do a complete recall. the speaker is basically so close to the drive and causing the heads to physically move around during loud noises.and I wonder if there's a way to add shielding to the drive. I've heard that some 1.8" drives installed in the AAO have leftover clearance that sometimes requires the space around the drive to be padded. Perhaps a thin, plastic-coated foil shield between the drive and the sound system would be enough to prevent this.

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