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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Phones don’t contain spinning disks.
Hard disks store data on very rapidly rotating metal plates. Moving a running hard drive leads to the disks not wanting to move the same way since they act as gyroscopes, which leads to Problems.
Solid state drives, SD cards, flash drives, and the flash memory in phones use solid state memory so they don’t have that issue. However, solid state memory is more expensive than hard drives for large amounts of space.
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