Quote:
|
Originally Posted by sanddrag
Would something like an iPod work?
|
Do Ipod's really have that much protection around the drive? They didnt look like it from the things Ive seen online when they are opened up.
One thing to remember about shock absorbers, if you do decide to go the route of using a full computer, they need to absorb the shock, not convert it into oscillations. A lot of the things that I have seen online for hard drive shock absorbers involve rubber bands. They end up having the hard drive there oscillating after the bump, which is almost worse (if not, actually worse) than the initial bump. The shock absorbing mechanism in that video in the first post was amazing, the drive moved down and back up, once and stopped. That is what the shock absorber should do.