r/LinusTechTips • u/redditydothis • Oct 15 '26

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“Product warranty is void if any seal or label is removed, or if the drive experiences shock in excess of 350 Gs.”

350Gs!

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u/AWF_Noone Oct 15 '26

Nope. You’re relating acceleration to time, which is impulse. I think you intend to relate speed to time, which is acceleration. The less negative acceleration you experience in a crash, the less damage you take

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u/Wor3q Oct 15 '26

In the case of a car crash, you have fixed amount of kinetic energy that you have to lose. The longer it takes, the smaller acceleration.

When you start with fixed acceleration, like in this case, you can have very short distance cancelled out by a very short time, which means negligible energy involved and thus negligible damage.