First post on these alternative sites so forgive any mistakes. My external hard drive (a small travel one) was enclosed in a padded hard-shell case like this one but I’m still worried. When I went on vacation, I had the hard drive in a bag that I was dragging down the (carpeted) stairs. I don’t know if the protective case was intended to shock absorb something like that and had I realized sooner that the HDD was in the bag, I would’ve packed it away with the laptop instead.
Should I replace the drive before something happens or do those cases shock absorb?
if the drive was gonna fail from a drop, you’d no immediately they’re pretty robust when the heads are parked, if the disk was spinning and the heads were flying that would be a different story
if you test the drive and it read writes fine it’ll be good, just be careful next time