Most platun HDD's have a small vacuum pressure release hole in the top of the HDD metal case.
The hole is located in line with the label that says "Do not cover this hole."
Given an extremely dusty enviroment I believe dirt could find it's way inside the HDD unit.
The HDD I have in my hand ATM also says "Warranty will be void if this unit experiences a shock greater than 350g's".
A platun HDD can take a serious bump before they give up. I've witness first hand an angry bloke round house punch a portable video camera another person was filming with. My first thought was the HDD is gone in the camera for sure. I believe the video camera works fine to this day.
Re: Which is better, SSD v's HDD.
The jury is out for me, I don't have enough feed back to tell one way or the other.
It's a point of read/write reliability verses data access speed. It's horses for coarses in some cases.
I will put that question to the computer Techs next time I run into them.
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