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Originally Posted by drofgnal
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.
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A Spinning drive is more vulnerable to shock.
Back in the XP days, I had a 5.25 drive in a desktop caddy, suddenly lose speed control and start walking around on my desk due to vibration before I could shut it down.
At work, we had a shipment of computers arrive late because of icy weather enroute, so we unpacked and powered them up as fast as we could. Almost 50% of the drives fail within the first hours. Rule of thumb: 1 hr at room temp for each 5 degrees below normal use before powering on. Don't leave your Laptop in the trunk overnight in cold climates