bluelake
Joined: 01 Dec 2005
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 Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 2:11 am Post subject: |
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| pkang0202 wrote: |
I threw my hard drive into my bookbag and took it on the plane. I didn't even need to take it out for customs. I just put my whole bag on the conveyer belt.
I din't wrap it in anything. It was being jostled around my book bag with a couple spindles of DVD's, computer cables, etc...
Computer hard drives aren't as fragile as you might think. Hell, i've dropped a couple on accident with no worries.
Usually, when you shut down your computer, your hard drive goes into a "locked" state when the read/write heads move away from the platter and get locked into position. This is to protect against the read/write heads scratching the platters during shock.
Some hard drives have accelerometers that detect a fall and will automatically move the read/write heads into this locked position. |
Back in the '80s, auto-park was not that common in drives, so they were prone to shock problems--hence, the demise of my drive... |
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