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A reduction in floor and building vibration might have contributed too?



Or for example, old cables and improperly installed cooling fans might tend to get fixed during a move. Hard to know for sure.


Well yeah, that's why it's presented as an anecdote. :)


Totally. Kind of reminds me of http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html


I was recalling this paper characterizing loss of system drive performance due to environmental vibrations (though I'm sure there are others).

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/sustainit10/tech/full_p...




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