Comments on Profile Post by dasman66

  1. dasman66
    dasman66
    Hard drive is a Seagate Exos x16 shipped in the original manf brown box packaging from Amazon. Top corner of box is completely crushed, but drive inside looks undamaged. Is impact damage a concern? This is going in a NAS
    Jun 21, 2022
  2. nishan99
    nishan99
    I would be concerned about its longevity if it's still working.
    Jun 21, 2022
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  3. ChaChaRealSmooth
    ChaChaRealSmooth
    If it seems fine I wouldn't be TOO concerned. Main concern with impact damage on a hard drive is that the drive heads will make contact with the magnetic platters, and if that didn't happen you should be fine
    Jun 21, 2022
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  4. Kernel Kurtz
    Kernel Kurtz
    In particular heads hitting a spinning platter is very bad, but in an unpowered drive the heads should be "parked" and less sensitive to impact. Also, the packaging has done its job, like the crumple zones on a car, so much better than an impact to a bare HDD. I'd do a scan for bad sectors and check the SMART info before you reshape/rebuild your RAID with it, but probably nothing to worry about.
    Jun 21, 2022
  5. atomicbob
    atomicbob
    Jun 22, 2022
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