In case you were wondering, the answer is yes. Yes, you can take an OQO Model 2+ on a rollercoaster while it’s in sleep mode and have it running just fine after all the sharp turns, drops, loops, rattles, and jostles.
Rollercoasters are no match for hard drives
Posted on 19 January 2009, Last updated on 11 November 2019 by Steve Paine
HAHAHA!! good one Jenn. Pushing the OQO to the limit :)
That must a new record. Somehow. Blogging G’s!
AIGH! I’m not sure I should be reading this. At least tell me you had it in a bag or something and weren’t checking to see if it would come out of sleep while doing a loop-the-loop!
Okay. I had it in a bag or something and wasn’t checking to see if it would come out of sleep while doing a loop-the-loop!
:-)
Love to see some streaming video of that! Extreme mobile MID blogging FTW!
Did the OQO scream?
“…it actually lets out a scream as internal mechanisms protect the hard drive.”
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/01/08/it-gets-angry-when-you-drop-it/
From OQO SUPPORT which only calls it Active drop detect HOWEVER the searching with the keyword “scream” found this:
“Active drop detect is a ruggedization/safety feature that detects free-fall and automatically parks the hard drive head if the computer is dropped. Since the drive heads do not contact the disk during impact, the potential for data loss is minimized. Your computer ships with active drop detect turned on by default.
How far can your OQO model 02 safely fall? Although we’d prefer that you never dropped your computer, we’ve tested active drop detect successfully for an eighteen foot drop. This is not a guarantee of results and your OQO is not warranted against drops.
While knocking your computer off of your desk or watching as it falls out of an overhead bin on an airplane may be situations in which you will be grateful for active drop detect, you may find yourself in an unstable environment, full of ups and downs that could mistakenly set off the active drop detection. Maybe you are a jogger listening to music on your OQO or a pilot or passenger in a small plane. Since it takes eight to ten seconds for the drive heads to park and then resume activity, this could be unnecessarily disruptive. Active drop protection can be disabled. “
Too bad you don’t have Chippy’s SSD model. You could set a Guinness record for 3G blogging in 2 G gravity.
not surprised, as a drive in sleep should have the heads parked and the plates stopped.
now, a real test would be to use a drive while on a rollercoaster…
I wanted to but my eyes were closed and my knuckles were white the whole time! Last time I had to watch the ride after I rode it just to see what actually happened.
On a rollercoaster? Wow. Awesome. “So this is the supe-important evaluaton that happens to the units we lend out to others.” ; )
Yes, drop detect won’t activate while its in suspend, though it might be cute to use the built in accelerometer to log a complete kinetic profile of the rollercoaster!