Per Jessen said the following on 05/16/2011 05:32 AM:
I'm pretty certain harddrives are supposed to take (quite a bit) more than 1G - I think your drive might well still work. Maybe it's just the cable or a connector or something.
On the whole I agree. But take this as a datum: We once measured the impact of a PCB/case that fell from the workbench onto a concrete floor -- 40G. Now that will be moderated if the floor is less hard - wood, carpet or grass. And don't forget, that's the FRAME impact. Instantaneous deceleration. Anything inside a box is like a passenger in a car wearing a seatbelt. The 'stop' isn't quite so instantaneous. When we used boxes and had the accelerometer on the equipment inside rather than hard-strapped to the frame we got results like those Per talks about. I've dropped laptops from desks onto office floors. The result was a cracked case and machine that would not boot But on opening it and re-seating the board and components everything was fine. Another ended up with a cracked screen - that was more serious. Of course of the impact twists the board (or the board with the electronics on top of the drive) and cracks it, that's another matter, and one that can occur in other ways. Just don't try tossing your older CRT-based monitors around :-) -- What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. -- Samuel Johnson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org