This is a point of concern for me if I decide to take my netbook on tours. I've got an Asus Eee 1000HE, and it currently has an old-school 160GB hard drive. My concern is how this drive would stand up to road vibrations in a pannier. I've got a neoprene sleeve for it, and I could liberally pad around it in the pannier. Still, I'm tilting toward buying a solid-state drive (SSD) for a more robust solution.

Anyone have some insight they can share regarding hard drives vs. solid-state drives?