[mythtv-users] Dec 2008 - State of the Art - Hard Drive Recommendations?

[John Drescher]

>> Hey, you know what would be great?  Hot-swappable drive bays that are
>> designed with foam padding around the part you remove!  That way, when
>> you pull the drive and then promptly fumble it and drop it on the
>> floor, there's at least a -chance- of a saving throw...
>
> ...or better yet: padded datacenters.
>
Just don't drop a drive that has valuable data on it. I don't recall
ever doing that in my several hundred drive installs. I did drop an
LTO2 tape once though. It survived a 3 foot fall.

John