I have a man cave that has to hold all my toys, so my large collection of computers with spinning hard drives is about 10 feet from my drum set. The drum set is largely idle, but my kid is now old enough to start playing, and I fear for my spinners.
Are the tolerances of WD blue hard drives such that I shouldn't worry about it?
Do the vibrations affect the drive?
Yes
Should you worry about it?
No
As demonstrated in this YouTube video, simply shouting at a hard drive can show a visible impact on performance. The video is quite funny... you should watch it.
That being said, vibrations -- even those coming from a nearby drum set -- are considered environmental noise, and the drive is designed to deal with them. Sometimes excess vibrations can cause read errors, but the firmware on the drive contains error correction algorithms that handle those errors without you even noticing. In fact, if you were to watch in real time, you'd see that hard drives are actually recovering from small errors all the time, even under ideal conditions.
Hard drives have a specified shock tolerance -- both operating and non-operating. And while the operating tolerance is much less than the non-operating tolerance, in both cases it's measured in G-forces. I don't know how many decibels it would take to equal 1G of force, but it's waaay louder than a drum set.
Another way to look at it would be to consider a laptop hard drive. These are designed to work while the computer is sitting on your lap, in a car, on a plane, or in lots of places where the environment produces vibrations that are every bit as intense than what a drum set would produce.
In short, it'll be fine.
