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• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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  • filcuk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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