16 Sep
2013
16 Sep
'13
16:29
On 2013-09-16 15:40, Greg Freemyer wrote:
In operation with the platters spinning and the heads "flying" micrometers above the platter surface, a standard 10 year old manufactured harddrive will develop media errors if you give it a strong bump. ie. you have a disk head crash.
I "destroyed" a HD on a desktop by banging my fist once on the table. Immediately I had read errors and a region was unreadable. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 12.3 x86_64 "Dartmouth" at Telcontar)