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From: rgd059@Mipl3.JPL.Nasa.Gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Hard disk vibrations
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Date: 12 Feb 88 19:01:18 GMT
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Howdy...

As you may have heard, we lucky folks in S. California had another incidence
of terra infirma yesterday (a 5.0 earthquake).  My Amiga was turned off at the
time (fortunately?!) but it raises an interesting question...

How much vibration can an operating hard disk take without crashing the heads
or otherwise damaging it?  Should I worry about leaving it on all the time
when it could get bounced around at any time?  (It's an ST251 I think (it's
at home)... internal to A2000, 40meg, ST506 interface, but this is a general
question).

This question is also relevant to the rest of you who live on solid ground.
After all, your computer table can always get bumped....  :-)

Thanx....

Bob Deen  @  NASA-JPL Multimission Image Processing Lab
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