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David Nebenzahl David Nebenzahl is offline
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Default Harddisk motion detection?

Ancient_Hacker spake thus:

Bart Bervoets wrote:

Is it possible that inside certain harddisks motion detectors are placed?


Yep, many do, to prevent head crashes when the drive gets jostled. Get
the drive model number and look up the manual on the Internet (a set
of tubes).


Sorry, you lost me there. "Set of tubes"; what is that?


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