Thread: Hard Drive shock protection
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Unread 05-11-2005, 20:31
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Re: Hard Drive shcok protection
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Originally Posted by scitobor 617
Well it is an IDE hard drive, I think 7200 RPM. Infact I will be running Linux on it but I have not considered flash storage. So far I've just been using parts that I could find laying around my house and school. I have a few old CDrom drives, maybe I could make a LiveCD. Maybe vibration would be less of an issue for a CD drive. How much do 2gb flash cards cost and where can I buy them?
CDs would probably be more sensitive to vibrations, (think of a CD player without skip protection) but they won't actually get destroyed. Because it's likely that once the base system and the lawn cutting program load you won't need to be retrieving more data, it would probably work fine. (Esp. if the cdrom spins down after that.)

Interesting idea. I might try that too...
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