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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (4 children)

This seems highly unlikely. Modern HDDs are extremely resilient.
But I don't know the details of your situation, obviously, and it's not impossible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What, like the head crashed by sheer coincidence, after eight hours of rattling?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would be more surprised that you yourself would withstand vibrations extreme enough to kill a hard drive, for 8 hours at that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

... 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.

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