Just thought I'd share this one as it's not something I've seen happen before. Customer came in after someone had punched/hit the laptop and it had stopped booting and was making odd sounds. No obvious physical damage on the outside of the laptop but upon removing the hard disk you could hear bit rattling around inside the HDD. Out of curiosity cracked open the HDD to find this....
1 tube of superglue. 1 sheet of fine sandpaper. That must have been a heavy punch. Anger management issues. What are Hdisk platters made from?
Modern hard drives seem to be getting more fragile. Just had a recently acquired 5000gig drive fail, though not so spectacularly.
No idea how they managed it without smashing the laptop into bits... I've hit HDD's with hammers and not done this kinda damage. They must be getting more fragile because in 10 years I've never pulled a drive out that looked like that hence why I posted it.
Didn't high speed CDs go through a spate of exploding in the drive a few years back? Are they made of similar material or completely different?
Completely different. CD's are made of certain plastics. However, plastics can be every bit as fragile as glass, and if the rpm exeeds there specified tolerances, you can say bye-bye to whatever was on that disk.
They must be I had 4 HDD failures over the last year. My dell XPS had WD and it just stopped working after a while, got a replacment hybird it failed after a week, so thats two. My third one was my Samsung F3 refusing to work, than my parents laptop ( my backup) laptops HDD failing. I can't wait for SSDs to come down in price so I can get rid of these damm things..
A friend and I were talking only the other day about how fragile HDDs are - way more so these days, it would seem. I've had more drives fail recently than ever...
