What are the disadvantages of a hard disk drive?

Answer 1

Since your question only requests the disadvantages, they are as follows: Consumes alot of power, the resistance of shocks is low, data error rates are frequent, weight ratios are large, the size is large, can be hard to recover data from, (SCSI) controller cards may be required, loud mechanical noise can be generated, heat can be generated, there are moving parts inside, the disk sectors will eventually stop working, and they can be broken if dropped (usually whilst operating). The speed of the Hard drive speed (MBS) can regulate the data transfer rate of the computer. If the jumper settings are not precise the hard drive may become fried. If you have a hard drive which is older you may find it hard to find the hardware drivers for it. Also if you have a hard drive which is older it may cause data to be corrupted on your computer and you may lose your data because of faulty transfer to/from the disk platters.