Maybe a good reason to move your HTPC to another room...

[astr0b0y]

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.07816.pdf

The paper discusses how to created a physical DDOS attack on spinning platter HDDs using sound in the audible range. If this is accurate there’s a reasonable chance of HDDs being disturbed in home theatres that are operating at reference level. Not too surprising I guess given their need for vibration free operation.
You could even design a track that had high dB of the frequencies mentioned.

 

[amirm]

It was a good read. As a practical matter though, by the time you are close enough to bombard the disk with obviously noticeable sound waves, you could just hit them with a hammer and then run. Once you have physical or close proximity to something, all bets are off.

 

[CuteStudio]

I moved mine into the garage for the opposite reason, it has a fan and spinning disks which were frankly intrusive.

I contemplated spending a lot of time and money making it silent, but then I remembered that TCP/IP had been invented and was free