Joined: Jan 2009
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From: New York, NY, and High Falls, NY, USA
Bikes: 1962 Rudge Sports, 1971 Raleigh Super Course, 1971 Raleigh Pro Track, 1974 Raleigh International, 1975 Viscount Fixie, 1982 McLean, 1996 Lemond (Ti), 2002 Burley Zydeco tandem
Hard drives do suffer damage, even though the heads do park. I agree that an SSD is a good hedge against this type of damage. Still, you should be doing backups if you save stuff on the computer.