What is the most common failure in hard drives today?
The most common cause of data loss is physical media damage, whereby the hard disk drive receives a physical shock causing the head to hit the platter or damage one of the moving parts. This condition will not always cause a failure straight away but the condition of the platter and internal parts will probably deteriorate and then the failure will occur. This will potentially cause the most damage if a laptop or mobile device is dropped at the same time the HDD is reading or writing data.
