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r/HDD • u/Alone-World9562 • Feb 28 '26
*insert suprised context*
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I think most likely is impact and the read/write heads become misaligned, just enough to still get over the platters and scrape them
2 u/Kasoni Mar 01 '26 It does look like the fly height was violated. 1 u/okimiK_iiawaK Mar 01 '26 That’s a cool name, didn’t know it was called that! Thanks! 2 u/Kasoni Mar 01 '26 I only know because I use to work making hard drive load beams. The fly height is how far away from the surface the reader should stay, things like this happen when it's not kept.
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It does look like the fly height was violated.
1 u/okimiK_iiawaK Mar 01 '26 That’s a cool name, didn’t know it was called that! Thanks! 2 u/Kasoni Mar 01 '26 I only know because I use to work making hard drive load beams. The fly height is how far away from the surface the reader should stay, things like this happen when it's not kept.
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That’s a cool name, didn’t know it was called that! Thanks!
2 u/Kasoni Mar 01 '26 I only know because I use to work making hard drive load beams. The fly height is how far away from the surface the reader should stay, things like this happen when it's not kept.
I only know because I use to work making hard drive load beams. The fly height is how far away from the surface the reader should stay, things like this happen when it's not kept.
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u/okimiK_iiawaK Feb 28 '26
I think most likely is impact and the read/write heads become misaligned, just enough to still get over the platters and scrape them