My Laptop Survived Gravity
Yesterday, I was unloading items from my vehicle when my neighbor, who uses a wheelchair, offered to help. He insisted on helping although I had said I would be OK. So, against my better judgment I le...
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happycamper002 wrote:
OP must have a Solid State Drive (SDD). I disagree that ALL computers would survive gravity and fall.
Conventional hard drives (HDD) will not survive a certain amount of shock compared to a Solid State Drive (exposed to the same G-Force).
Traditional hard drives are electro mechanical devices, while SDDs have no moving parts. As such, HDDs can be totally ruined to exposure to a certain amount of G-Force.
Stored data in SDDs can be accessed faster than HDDs because there is no motor to spin the disk and last much longer.
They are expensive however.
I can't say much about computer screen because they are ALL made of glass.
err I guess you missed gbopp's joke and smiley face there:(
