is it bad if i dropped a hard drive??

[crab]

Are you related to yakko?

 

[noxipoo]

yakko is dead. its prob working since 2-3 inches is nothing of a drop

 

[bonkers325]

<< i dropped it like 2-3 inches in a car that was pretty much carpetted. i havent opened it yet but was wondering if they're would be any damage to the drive >>



it will survive
if it doesnt that means it was made poorly
these days drives are rock solid as long as u dont drop it from head to toe

 

[ArchAngel777]

Another important thing I did not mention is that drives in their &quot;unpowered&quot; state are very durable. If you droped the drive while powered on... then kiss it goodbye, at least a few dozen sectors that is.... if it was not powered, then the arm was in the rested sage position and you should be just fine!


I think your drive is fine personally.. and would not worry about it.

 

[carolinaboy]

JEEZ and i thought cell phones were bad! put down the joystick, man, and concentrate on the road!!

 

[Hecky]

If a drive can take the acceleration of a catapult off a carrier deck in an F-14 or F/A-18 I think it will survive your drop in your car.

 

[Mookow]

I've noticed you can apply the 3 foot rule to most computer components: If you drop it from more than 3 feet, cogratulations, you have just screwed yourself; if you drop it less than 3 feet, you should be fine (I've never dropped a burner, so I cant promise anything there). You should be fine, I wouldnt even worry about it.

 

[Mapidus]

<< Monitors are the strongest. I have dropped them off 8 foor high loading docks, nothing. THROWN as hard as I could down off 8 foot loading dock - nothing.

Rammed front of a monitor screen with a the prong of a 5,000 pound forklift at full speed - a tiny scratch.

Leaded glass = strong >>



You must be a UPS worker. No wonder so many monitors get damaged when shipped UPS.

 

[ArchAngel777]

ROFL!!!!!

 

[wakko]

well ok i just installed win2k and everything appears to run smoothly i ran a surface scan with disk doctor and no bad sectors...


although i have another question. why does my 40 GIG Quantum only read a total of 37Gigs ??

 

[Jeff7]

40GB is marketing. For that, they assume 1GB equals 1,000,000,000 bytes. A GB is actually 1,073,741,824 bytes - 1024 bytes per kilobyte. (I think that's the correct number.
Ah, yes:
40,000,000,000 divided by 1,073,741,824 is 37.25. Only the marketing world views a GB as an even billion bytes. I can't stand marketing crap like that.



<< If a drive can take the acceleration of a catapult off a carrier deck in an F-14 or F/A-18 I think it will survive your drop in your car. >>



Thing is, that acceleration is fairly slow. When a drive is dropped, it comes to a complete stop in a very tiny fraction of a second: going from free-fall to stop in an instant - that translates to a lot of G-forces. I can't give a precise number, since I don't know the time it takes for a drive to stop completely, at least, not a number that's exact. In short, dropping a drive on a solid floor isn't good.

 

[Bozz]

I'm going to post in the braindead fashion many others have posted already:

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I have dropped my HD and it is just fine so you'res will be just fine too!
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Duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!