On Thursday 28 August 2008 05:41:39 pm Greg Freemyer wrote:
Since the platter is spinning, rotating the laptop will cause a gyroscopic force to try and accelerate the platter even faster. Not sure that is a big deal, but it makes me uncomfortable to think about. Somehow I just don't think a disk drive is designed to handle gyroscopic force. (Or maybe it is??)
As Randall already said I also really don't think rotation in any way can affect the hard drive to accelerate, and probably that would be the harmless way out of all. I thought hard drives work somewhat in a similar way to gramphone vinyl disks reading off the music with the "needle" (but this is probably stupid). So any kind of kicks will probably "scratch" the hard drive but not the faster rotation, maybe. -- Sergey Mkrtchyan, Graduate Student @ Department of Physics & Astronomy, Faculty of Science, University of Waterloo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org