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• remon@ani.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ok, but it’s rather specific case if you were still using a laptop with an HDD last year.

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  • TheOakTree@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There are still a few use cases… mainly price. A 4TB 2.5" HDD can be had for less than a bottom-of-the-barrel 2TB NVME.

    But I would definitely hesitate to bring spinning drives on a bumpy ride.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Spinning drives have a no place in a laptop. In a desktop at home, sure.

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      • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Absolutely no reason to put one in a new laptop.

        But not all computers are new.

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• filcuk@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This seems highly unlikely. Modern HDDs are extremely resilient.
  But I don’t know the details of your situation, obviously, and it’s not impossible.

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  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What, like the head crashed by sheer coincidence, after eight hours of rattling?

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    • filcuk@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I would be more surprised that you yourself would withstand vibrations extreme enough to kill a hard drive, for 8 hours at that.

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      • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        … I hope you keep good backups, if you think it takes a hammer-blow to kill a hard drive. The heads float half a dick-hair above spinning metal. They’re good at pulling away when it seems like they might get bumped together - but all it takes is one miss.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And at least the laptops I had with spinning drives had vibration dampening.

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