How much force does it take to break a Hard Drive?

Posted on June 19, 2011 by

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I was told that it takes 9G of force to break a hard drive, that maybe, but in real world situation, u can break ur hard drive with ur finger tips by simply doing a drop, thats was it. this video is a experiment to see if a hard drive is tough as it should be or its as fragile as I expect it to be.

23 Responses to How much force does it take to break a Hard Drive?

  1. madjimms says:
    June 19, 2011 at 4:38 pm

    This is actually repairable, but would involve opening the HDD.

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  2. ELGAPP0 says:
    June 19, 2011 at 5:46 pm

    lol nice one dude.

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  3. jaesungauzakim says:
    June 19, 2011 at 6:54 pm

    @tricccple dang.

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  4. tricccple says:
    June 19, 2011 at 8:02 pm

    @BarackMcBush yeah, me and few others now determine that it takes that much force to break ti apart, but really don’t take that much to break the drive. (functionality wise)

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  5. BarackMcBush says:
    June 19, 2011 at 9:10 pm

    Not Much , I had a new 640gb Sata drive , My case fell 6" when I was working on it , It screwed up the drive! I doubt that was anywhere close to 9G’s

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  6. tricccple says:
    June 19, 2011 at 10:18 pm

    @jaesungauzakim yuppers

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  7. Novix6 says:
    June 19, 2011 at 11:26 pm

    Lmao at the part when yu jst smack it !

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  8. jaesungauzakim says:
    June 20, 2011 at 12:34 am

    permanent damage?

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  9. tricccple says:
    June 20, 2011 at 1:42 am

    @CJCA915 yup, from the sound of it, that is what happened.

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  10. tricccple says:
    June 20, 2011 at 2:50 am

    @CJCA915 yeah, well this experiment is not fully scientific anyways, since i do have only 1 drive to test on lolz.

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  11. Gitiaa says:
    June 20, 2011 at 3:58 am

    AHAHAHAHHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!AHAHAH

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  12. CJCA915 says:
    June 20, 2011 at 5:06 am

    The only problem it sounds like is the reader head was thrown off the platters… something is trying to move…

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  13. M3RVITIS says:
    June 20, 2011 at 6:14 am

    0_0, that was easier said than done, i thought it would take more abuse than that :/

    Thank goodness i have a SSD :D

    Thanks for doing this video, the maxtor drives life will not be forgotten and has greatly contributed to science.

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  14. tricccple says:
    June 20, 2011 at 7:22 am

    @tricccple i meant i don’t want to expose the name,

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  15. frankieboie says:
    June 20, 2011 at 8:30 am

    @tricccple
    Maxtor hard drives never had a soul lol! Only WD drives has them. :P

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  16. tricccple says:
    June 20, 2011 at 9:38 am

    @frankieboie oh boy, hardwares got souls too now?

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  17. frankieboie says:
    June 20, 2011 at 10:46 am

    @tricccple
    Still, REPORTED for hardware ABUSE!!!!!

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  18. tricccple says:
    June 20, 2011 at 11:54 am

    @CelebrityGamer mainly for the folks that don’t believe how fragile hard drives really are. little sacrifice for video recorded proof of that.

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  19. tricccple says:
    June 20, 2011 at 1:02 pm

    @frankieboie I got more spare hard drives for these purposes.

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  20. tricccple says:
    June 20, 2011 at 2:10 pm

    @frankieboie generic IDE/SATA to USB adapter

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  21. jussipejulliano says:
    June 20, 2011 at 3:18 pm

    Thanks for the experiment !

    I will take care in future xD

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  22. frankieboie says:
    June 20, 2011 at 4:26 pm

    @CelebrityGamer
    Ya, even if it’s old still worth using on a older rig.

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  23. CelebrityGamer says:
    June 20, 2011 at 5:34 pm

    I think a better question, why would you break a hard drive lol

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