X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 07:22:57 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from web82706.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([68.142.201.87] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.11) with SMTP id 2286909 for lml@lancaironline.net; Mon, 27 Aug 2007 07:12:04 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=68.142.201.87; envelope-from=earleschroeder@yahoo.com Received: (qmail 31996 invoked by uid 60001); 27 Aug 2007 11:11:25 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=SXnDyDDKR/o4a72j2sdT2qbjfDU8cS+NWRx6jjYV0yxoUVRmDwc1nY1mW3sgbhD3kbxkLRPHGk4Zn4IRVyr/DN9weOEA/GPCrPGQAWfbarGGaOYhlri7PsJTbjdQALThUtccvcL20x2zMyjotg73ge/opADPfkIbcEydwht4tHc=; X-YMail-OSG: eVqtkrYVM1nZzBb7gKwzWFiJDa8sTfMdu7Hhzq6BO6Aqy_lvQkQIxxD6cIHXz_3ZZQ-- Received: from [75.16.233.121] by web82706.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:11:25 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/651.48 YahooMailWebService/0.7.119 X-Original-Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:11:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Earl Schroeder Subject: Re: [LML] iPod Hard Drive Crash X-Original-To: Lancair Mailing List MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-2023083256-1188213085=:30486" X-Original-Message-ID: <638910.30486.qm@web82706.mail.mud.yahoo.com> --0-2023083256-1188213085=:30486 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =0AI believe 10,000 pressure altitude is the normal upper limit. Some have= survived higher, some have not. Earl=0A =0A=0AA while ago there was a thr= ead on hard drives =0Abreaking down at altitude due to the decrease in cush= ioning air =0Abetween the disk and the read/write head. I understand that = the iPod is =0Abased on a hard drive - will the same thing happen to an iPo= d? At what =0Aaltitude? Anyone with any experience?=0A=0A =0A=0AD. Brunne= r=0A=0A=0A=0A --0-2023083256-1188213085=:30486 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I believe 10,000 pressure altitude is the norma= l upper limit.  Some have survived higher, some have not.  Earl= =0A
 
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= A while ago there was a thread on hard driv= es =0Abreaking down at altitude due to the decrease in cushioning= air =0Abetween the disk and the read/write head.  I understand that t= he iPod is =0Abased on a hard drive - will the same thing happen to an iPod= ?  At what =0Aaltitude?  Anyone with any experience?
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D. Brunner

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