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Article #68775Re: Revival of a dead HDD - Help
From: John Naismith
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 00:00
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In article: <jhrPXAAIpqfxEwD+@helix.demon.co.uk> Mike Clarke <mike@helix.demon.co.uk> writes: > Modern disks are much more robust than most people assume, for > example Seagate quote a maximum operational shock of 10G and a non > operational limit of 75G for their Medalist range. That's more than the > human body can stand. Pedant mode on <g> You're confusing "shock" with a continuous G force. eg - you're subjected to shocks of 3-4G when you're driving your car on a "normal" road. However, the *magnitude* of these shocks is sufficiently small that you barely notice it. Pedant mode off... -- --------------------------- john@naismith.demon.co.uk ---------------------------
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1036bc,fcdebf40ae642382 X-Google-Attributes: gid1036bc,public From: John Naismith <John@naismith.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: Revival of a dead HDD - Help Date: 1996/04/25 Message-ID: <303146804wnr@naismith.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 151338093 x-nntp-posting-host: naismith.demon.co.uk references: <830028724snz@yemeads.demon.co.uk> <830119018snz@lgab.demon.co.uk> <830119266snz@yemeads.demon.co.uk> <830301092snz@myth.demon.co.uk> <MBXaIDA+hjfxEwVq@hmsl-group.co.uk> <jhrPXAAIpqfxEwD+@helix.demon.co.uk> x-broken-date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 09:55:57 GMT0BST1 x-mail2news-path: disperse.demon.co.uk!post.demon.co.uk!naismith.demon.co.uk organization: None reply-to: John@naismith.demon.co.uk newsgroups: demon.tech.pc