… I hope you keep good backups, if you think it takes a hammer-blow to kill a hard drive. The heads float half a dick-hair above spinning metal. They’re good at pulling away when it seems like they might get bumped together - but all it takes is one miss.
What, like the head crashed by sheer coincidence, after eight hours of rattling?
I would be more surprised that you yourself would withstand vibrations extreme enough to kill a hard drive, for 8 hours at that.
… I hope you keep good backups, if you think it takes a hammer-blow to kill a hard drive. The heads float half a dick-hair above spinning metal. They’re good at pulling away when it seems like they might get bumped together - but all it takes is one miss.