Originally Posted by
gcasillo
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.
Though a non-SSD hard drive would probably be fine, as many folks have toured with one, I had the same concern. I figured something designed with moving parts would be more likely to fail from the sustained vibration, and since I was buying something new, I leaned toward solid state.
Many of the latest UMPCs have SSD. Typically less capacity, but as Adam mentioned, a bit faster, and maybe a tad more durable.