hard drive shock protection asus g50vt x5??

Does anyone now if the asus g50 vt x5 hard drives have great shock protection, or any kind of protection at all, i also have an toshiba satellite e105 s1402 and i remember that every time i moved my computer a message would appear on the screen that said "t he harddrive has been move to a safer position to avoid damage", does this asus has this kind of protection???? or what does it have to protect the hardrive???, if there isnt any kind of protection can someone tell wath to do to avoid hd damage??? i know is a kind of dumb question but i has been all over my head for the last few days

thanks for respond...

 

That feature involves an accelerometer that detects when the computer is being moved around with accelerations of at least a given magnitude; and will then park the ReadWrite heads of the HDD so that the heads can't be pushed onto the HDD platter surfaces due to the movement, and scratch or damage the surface.

I do NOT know whether this accelerometer+feature are implemented in the HDD itself, or on the mainboard+BIOS of the computer.

However, you do not need to be unduly worried about this. Most computers do not have this feature, and you don't see HDDs failing right and left even though many people use laptops on the go and move around with them. The reason: HDDs are very tough nowadays, they can take a lot of acceleration without damage.

I am guessing that your older laptop had a very conservative (i.e., "better safe than sorry") setting for the minimum acceleration at which it parked the heads; hence you saw the feature being activated while the laptop was being moved around even though it wasn't necessary.

I can definitely say that you can move any current-day laptop around the house/office while powered on, or use it while in a moving vehicle such as a train or airplane, WITHOUT fear of HDD damage. Just don't sway it around very energetically, and definitely don't bump it strongly against other objects, while running (and even while off )

And to answer your question, the G50 does not have this feature, and I don't know right now of an ASUS laptop that does. This is usually reserved for higher-end business models, or "rugged" models, and ASUS don't have many of those, at least not currently.

 

thanks, great explanation