When you're using your laptop, is the hard disk always spinning? I know that you aren't supposed to move your laptop until the sleep indicator turns on after you close the lid... But can you move your laptop to another room while the lid is up and you're still using it? Will that mess up the hard drive?
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Macbook hard drive
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The hard drive is almost always spinning when the computer is on. While it isn't always the best idea, you can move your laptop when its one. If its gets bumped to hard, the Macbook will protect its hard drive by parking the head. If you must move it when its on, don't tilt it. Keep it level or on the same plane as when you started. The tilting motion has a higher chance of causing damage.
Oh okay, thank you. So just a bump wouldn't be a big deal and the computer would protect itself? Or say if my lame sister was just lifting it up and down repeatedly, that's okay?
It has a sudden motion sensor and a freefall sensor that will park the hard drive automatically. All HDDs also have some electronics trickery that allow the head to park when power is suddenly cut.
Basically, it's really hard to kill a modern hard drive unless you're sitting it on something with heavy vibration or toss it off a building.
You'll be fine...lol. Don't worry too much about moving around, I've been doing it for years and it's fine :S. I even use it while in the car lol.
