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The mechanical hard drive is the only product that doesn't like mechanical shocks.  Well, nothing like mechanical shocks, but only part that's affected easily by them.

 

These days, they have acceleration and shock sensors so if it's a big enough bump or hit, those sensors would be tripped and the first thing a mechanical drive would do is to quickly park the drive heads outside the area of the platters, so that the heads won't vibrate and hit the surface scratching it or breaking loose bits of material. 

 

Maybe that's what you heard, the mechanical drive parking / moving away its heads outside for safety.

 

Anything else doesn't care that much.   I guess too bit of a hit / fall  could cause a heavy heatsink / cooler to snap plastic retaining clips or screws going into a backplate could be popped out damaging the screw thread.

But this is extreme ... not a small bump with the elbow. 

 

Look the following days with a tool like Aida64 or any other tool that lists the SMART information from your hard drive. Some rows there will tell if the drive was damaged in some way.  

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Someone in my family accidentally hit my pretty newly built computer. What happened was they were turning and they smacked the side/top of the case with the back of their arm and elbow. The computer was on and there was a very loud thud, however it stayed on. I have since run cinebench and 3Dmark benchmarks and everything seems fine. I have an SDD and HDD and status came back OK with WMIC. I tested a few games and they seem to run fine. I am wondering if there is anything else I should be checking to make sure everything is ok. It was a pretty hard hit and loud noise so it has me concerned. Thank you for any advice. 

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3 minutes ago, Kevinjr12 said:

Someone in my family accidentally hit my pretty newly built computer. What happened was they were turning and they smacked the side/top of the case with the back of their arm and elbow. The computer was on and there was a very loud thud, however it stayed on. I have since run cinebench and 3Dmark benchmarks and everything seems fine. I have an SDD and HDD and status came back OK with WMIC. I tested a few games and they seem to run fine. I am wondering if there is anything else I should be checking to make sure everything is ok. It was a pretty hard hit and loud noise so it has me concerned. Thank you for any advice. 

Nothing should be broken. I had to once put my pc on the floor and in the dark I accidentally stubbed my toe and it didn`t cause any damage to the pc even though it got hit decently hard and my foot got numb.

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The mechanical hard drive is the only product that doesn't like mechanical shocks.  Well, nothing like mechanical shocks, but only part that's affected easily by them.

 

These days, they have acceleration and shock sensors so if it's a big enough bump or hit, those sensors would be tripped and the first thing a mechanical drive would do is to quickly park the drive heads outside the area of the platters, so that the heads won't vibrate and hit the surface scratching it or breaking loose bits of material. 

 

Maybe that's what you heard, the mechanical drive parking / moving away its heads outside for safety.

 

Anything else doesn't care that much.   I guess too bit of a hit / fall  could cause a heavy heatsink / cooler to snap plastic retaining clips or screws going into a backplate could be popped out damaging the screw thread.

But this is extreme ... not a small bump with the elbow. 

 

Look the following days with a tool like Aida64 or any other tool that lists the SMART information from your hard drive. Some rows there will tell if the drive was damaged in some way.  

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My old old computer was thrown out the door literally and worked fine after cleaning up some dirt. Desktops can handle a lot the only fragile part is the hdd really and glass. I'd be surprised if it's damaged especially after all these tests are running just fine.

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5 hours ago, jaslion said:

My old old computer was thrown out the door literally and worked fine after cleaning up some dirt. Desktops can handle a lot the only fragile part is the hdd really and glass. I'd be surprised if it's damaged especially after all these tests are running just fine.

Dude, your girlfriend was PISSED at you to throw your PC out the house!  Damn, what did you do? 😉

 

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On 7/16/2021 at 8:32 AM, Dedayog said:

Dude, your girlfriend was PISSED at you to throw your PC out the house!  Damn, what did you do? 😉

 

Probably nothing. Literally doing nothing pisses off the GF like you wouldn't believe!

 

...or maybe I've had bad luck.   

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Any one who has built a frustration box knows a computer can take a solid hit. 

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On 7/16/2021 at 1:25 AM, jaslion said:

My old old computer was thrown out the door literally and worked fine after cleaning up some dirt. Desktops can handle a lot the only fragile part is the hdd really and glass. I'd be surprised if it's damaged especially after all these tests are running just fine.

Well... apart from large air coolers putting strain on the board and socket and heavy GPUs potentially ripping apart PCIe slots but hey, minor details. If they could really put up with a big beating, then shipping damage for desktops would be almost impossible. Unless the courier ran a forklift into the damn thing. 

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On 7/16/2021 at 8:01 AM, Kevinjr12 said:

It was a pretty hard hit and loud noise so it has me concerned.

Have you checked the person's bones for damage? They can make loud noise too...

 

Jokes aside, unless you have a beefy air cooler or a giant GPU in a cheapo case without support bracket, as other said, I would not worry too much. Also some hard drives have features to sustain shocks.

 

Just check any mass big enough to have a high enough inertia and that might not be secured enough to sustain such sudden acceleration.

Isn't windows three-sixty-five just a more recent version of windows three-eleven?

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On 7/16/2021 at 3:32 PM, Dedayog said:

Dude, your girlfriend was PISSED at you to throw your PC out the house!  Damn, what did you do? 😉

 

Twas my dad I dropped a expensive crystal glass whilst doing dishes after my little brother bumped into me :p.

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10 hours ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Well... apart from large air coolers putting strain on the board and socket and heavy GPUs potentially ripping apart PCIe slots but hey, minor details. If they could really put up with a big beating, then shipping damage for desktops would be almost impossible. Unless the courier ran a forklift into the damn thing. 

Yeah this was a pentium 4 system still. Just a simple aluminium heatsink block and a fan on top of it. The gpu was also just a radeon 9600 tx so nothing big or heavy. If you try this with a system of similar class components of today then well yeah just the gpu alone would rip the board to shreds :p.

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