the best thing I ever saw on youtube was a guy holding up a HDD, saying "Would this break, if I dropped it?", and he drops it, and the transfer speed graph immediately drops to 0, and he says "Yes."

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@Nerts I wonder if anyone has ever made an HDD that won't break if you drop it while it's running.
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@Felthry @Nerts There's probably hardware like that in like, military-grade laptops and the like. I think those things are designed to take a beating.

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