Re: [tlug] Potentially Dying Hard Disk Questions [2](DroppingHD's...)

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

>>>>> "Lyle" == Lyle Saxon <Lyle> writes:

    Lyle> 150 G's??  Sounds like an airplane or something.....  Is a
    Lyle> two foot drop to a linoleum floor more than 150 G's??

The two-foot drop is free fall, ie, zero G's.  It's the last micron
where you go from 1 ft/sec to 0 ft/sec in a femtosec that the G's
build up.

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