Originally Posted by
Doug64
Conventional hard drives are pretty tough.
My wife carried
the Toshiba in her rear pannier for over 4000 miles without a problem. On a tour last summer part of our route included 400 miles of unpaved roads and trails, and over 500 miles of cobblestone and paver block roads and trails.
+1
Same experience here. Ride partner carried an Acer Netbook with conventional hard drive on our Central America tour, 1800 miles with 100+ of rough dirt/gravel. Zero problems. I've since gotten one myself and did two other tours with it, again without a single issue. Knew another couple who had the same Netbook with the SSD, which crashed somewhere in South America. Luckily they had their pics/blog backed up. You might consider replacing your SSD with a conventional HD.