we had an old 200mb drive that we were tring to kill. we ran it with out the case and dropped liquid on the platters and the thing still ran and booted fine.
what killed it was when one of the drops landed on the head and caused it to dig in to the platter. it still booted but scandisk reported a problem w/ the fat.
the bottom line is those things are tougher than you might think.
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we had an old 200mb drive that we were tring to kill. we ran it with out the case and dropped liquid on the platters and the thing still ran and booted fine.
what killed it was when one of the drops landed on the head and caused it to dig in to the platter. it still booted but scandisk reported a problem w/ the fat.
the bottom line is those things are tougher than you might think.