I *am* going to bitch about those hard-drive shock/G specs tho.
OK
I've worked as a QC/proto tech on "stuffs" that have gone thru
shake-table testing for those ratings, including setting up the table
and sensors. It's just one of those things that have to be quantified
for MilSpec weapons systems and NASA gear, should be obvious.
Yes. Hard drives have military roots, and so did their manufacture,
before those standards were relieved. They *are* standard declarations
and there is a mil spec they follow.
I always saw (and interpreted from) those specs by the "qualifier" that
indicated how the "shake" was applied.
Depends on the maker as to how much data one will see declared on the
primary spec sheet. Some makers require further inquiry to 'extract'
certain figures from them.
I've never seen a "qualifier" on a HD datasheet.
I have, but they follow a standard, so standard practices would be
utilized. There is functional test, and then destructive level testing
where you shake it till you bake it.
Think "100 watts peak music power" vs "100 watts RMS @ speced
distortion".
Don't really need a primer, but environmental and vibe specs are
standardized. This industry (hard drives) is no exception.
I've seen (as have many) *cheap* 100W PMP units that can't
even do 5W RMS without blowing up.
I was around in the seventies, dude. I don't even want to talk about
the differences between declared and real audio amplification claims and
'specs'. I watched it walk from 1% THD being "good" to 0.004%, to now ,
where it doesn't seem to make so much difference and floats between 0.1%
and 0.01%. That was home stereos, and they *were* properly declared.
"Auto-sound", on the other hand, was typically not correctly declared.
"The smokin' is the tellin" as they say. I saw some really nice stuff
that was mounted right on the back of the speakers back in the mid 70s
that did a pretty good job, if the owner had enough brains to enclose the
backside.
Well, you know it will be sinusoidal. One does not test assemblies
with hard, square wave vibrations.