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

[Edward Wright <edw@example.com>]

On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 03:24:48PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> >>>>> "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.  

Uhhhh.... actually, 1 G - a "G" being the rate of acceleration of
a body at sea level acted upon by the earth's gravity - 9.8m/s/s
more or less

:-)


Ed