None of this is valid if your drive is less than 10 years old. There's been tons of discussion about it, as well as white papers from Seagate & Hitachi. Unless you've really rigged yourself a high Q super bouncy suspension, there should be zero effect on any aspect of performance with a modern drive.SinnerG wrote:What sort of drive performance loss are people seeing after suspending their drives? I immediately noticed some hesitation/delay during boot.
It's obvious the "floating" drives now have nothing to stablize them so any vibration must translate to the actuator inside.
I suggest you time several bootups w/ the elastic, then go back to hard mount and time the boot that way. See if there is a time diference. I've never seen it -- and I've tried this comparison. I've also been suspending drives for 10 years.