Comment by Dalewyn

3 years ago

Assuming the car is actually used, an HDD would be subject to numerous physical stresses. Not exactly something HDDs like.

2.5" hard drives are usually very robust when powered down. That comes from the age when they were expected to be used in laptops.

  • I was about to say “the age? You mean today” and realized 2.5” “laptop” hard drives aren’t really used in laptops anymore, even the low-end ones. Damn.

    • Funny, I thought the exact same thing. I still think of SSD's as "fancy" like it's still 2008 or something.