Well, this isn't the best day of my life but surely it isn't the worse :P
Well today I tried to write some DVD's and found that I was getting a "Power Calibration" error. So I thought I had some kind of problem in the OS so just to be sure I disconnected all the other drives and installed my backup (recovery) drive which had a fresh copy of windows.I placed it at the bottom of the CD-ROM bay because my motherboard only supports two IDE devices and I had to connect the DVD-Rewriter to it as well.After doing my testing removed the power cable from the drive and tried to remove the IDE cable but it was like stuck. So I pulled it out harder (In was still inside the CD-ROM bay as I was lazy to unplug the DVD-Rewriter just to remove it). Then BAM! the IDE cable got removed and the drive came flying out the front of the PC break opening the dummy cover (you remove them when you install new DVD/CD drives).The HDD landed 3 feet away from the PC and it fell like 4 and a half feet to a cement floor. The thing just bounced off the cement floor lol.But I plugged it again and it still works! It didn't break. I don't think many HDD's are likely to survive such a fall.My drive is a 7 year old Quantum Fireball 20GB.Well I guess its safe to say Quantum is like very durable.:)
No, F1aker, in one you said Gentleman, the other you said Gentlemen :P
Fireballs were built to last. Most of the time.
HDDs are invincible! I've actually driven my external over in a car (long story). The enclosure was absolutely destroyed, but the little bugger was still alive and slightly dented on the edges.
Anyway, 7 years old is quite an acheivement for a harddrive, clearly in the era of 20gb they made pretty solid drives. I wouldn't drop my 160gb, it might explode.