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I don't think I've ever had a hard drive fail. I even ran over my laptop once in a rental car parking lot and everything except the monitor still worked. I connected to an external monitor and it booted right up.

Modern hard drives are pretty robust. You can order them and they get shipped all over and still work. Shipping can have some pretty high shock and vibration loads. I had someone ship me pictures on a hard drive. I'm sure UPS just tossed it on the front porch, worked fine.