In a word, yes.Didn't realise they was constructed under such conditions. Would running it, in your opinion, with the top half of the encasing off, destroy the HDD? Kinda tempted to but one for a display case i was going to attempt but if it's just to die on me, no point.
Didn't realise they was constructed under such conditions. Would running it, in your opinion, with the top half of the encasing off, destroy the HDD? Kinda tempted to but one for a display case i was going to attempt but if it's just to die on me, no point.
A smoke particle is bigger than the air gap between the disk and the read/write heads, a grain of dust would be like dropping a freight train infront of a hovercraft....
Hard drives heads literally float on a cusion of air generated by the spinning disks. If the heads hit something they can "crash" into the disk, and scratch the surface, almost certainly causing a whole bunch of bad sectors.
Once you open a hard disk its toast.
I believe that western digital do/did make a window version of the velociraptor with a perspex window in the top plate. No other drive is made like that.