Patent ID: 8681440

Claim:
A storage system, the storage system comprising: one or more storage disks mounted within a housing of a storage device; one or more heads, mounted within the housing, for reading data from or writing data to respective ones of the one or more storage disks; one or more vibration detectors associated with the storage device, wherein at least one of the one or more vibration detectors is mounted external to the housing; one or more counter-vibration actuators associated with the storage device, wherein at least one of the one or more counter-vibration actuators is mounted external to the housing; one or more processors, wherein the one or more processors are configured to receive vibration data from the one or more vibration detectors, wherein the vibration data represents vibrations experienced by the storage device, in response the vibration data from the one or more vibration detectors, calculate one or more movements for respective ones of the one or more counter-vibration actuators to at least partially cancel of the vibrations experienced by the storage device, and cause the one or more counter-vibration actuators to perform the respective one or more movements.