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Not that I'm knocking (har har) SSDs (early adopter meself) but surely, like a tone arm lock, couldn't a "traditional" HDD's reading head be "made safe" by rotating it away from the platter, negating vertical movement? And if this isn't possible, why can my Lacie 2.5" HDD enclosure repeatedly take a fall of over a metre without issues?
I carried my old pre-unibody MBP around in a satchel on sleep mode for years, and never had a HDD failure.
I suspect, a bit like bitrot on SSD's, it's evidenced only on paper, and affects very few, if any, people IRL.