Would this provide enough protection for an external hard drive?

[levmc]

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While it has cushion on front and back, it doesn't seem to be cushioned for the sides.

 

[Basic75]

Enough protection from what? For extreme circumstances I'd recommend something more like this: https://www.amazon.com/Pelican-1120-Case-Foam-Black/dp/B0051QIBUE/

 

[tmoerel]

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While it has cushion on front and back, it doesn't seem to be cushioned for the sides.

It all depends what you want to be protected from!

 

[gshocked]

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While it has cushion on front and back, it doesn't seem to be cushioned for the sides.

Which drive do you have?

IMO, most newer mechanical drive are pretty robust. Unless you’re doing some extreme parkour while on your way to work, you could live without a padded case.

Have you looking at a tech organiser instead?

Better yet, look into a ssd drive.

 

[MacGizmo]

If you know how mechanical hard drives work, you know that almost no case is going to protect it from a drop in the way you think.

Sure, the HD enclosure won't get scratched/cracked/broken, but the damage to the drive itself comes from the motion of the impact, not the impact itself (the sudden stop/change of direction of movement can shift the moving parts of the drive to cause the real damage).

If I was spending your money, I would spend it on replacing that hard drive with an SSD drive.

 

[levmc]

If you know how mechanical hard drives work, you know that almost no case is going to protect it from a drop in the way you think.

Sure, the HD enclosure won't get scratched/cracked/broken, but the damage to the drive itself comes from the motion of the impact, not the impact itself (the sudden stop/change of direction of movement can shift the moving parts of the drive to cause the real damage).

If I was spending your money, I would spend it on replacing that hard drive with an SSD drive.

But I heard that even though SSD doesn't have the problem of HDD, it can suddenly fail nevertheless, and when it does, it can be much more harder and expensive when trying to recover it compared to recovering a HDD.

 

[MacGizmo]

Any device can fail, but the chances are much slimmer with SSDs. I've never had an SSD fail, and I've been using them since Apple started putting them in the Mac. HDDs, on the other hand, I've had fail several times over the years simply from start/stops (no drops).

 

[Fishrrman]

Gizmo wrote:
"I've never had an SSD fail"

I have. Two failures, in fact.
In each case, both drive simply "went dark on me", never to be "seen" again.
Wouldn't show up in utilities, etc. No response at all.

Like I said, they just "went dark".