Why is it that I’m able to carry my phone around perfectly fine but I’m not supposed to move a hard drive while it’s spinning?
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If you’ve ever had a bicycle wheel spin in your hands and you try to twist it, you can feel the wheel not want to.
Now put that into a thin (in these cases flexible) metal disk, with a metal point a few micrometers (less than human hair thickness) and you can probably imagine what is likely to happened..
Disk flexes, point contacts disk. Best case it scratches the disk and removes some data.
Worst case, disk shatters and removes all data.
Solid state disks are all digital, no moving parts. So inertia and spinning forces make no difference
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