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Hello- I’m wondering if accidentally dropping an SSD external drive can result in project files being altered or missing with no other changes. I keep my project files on an external SSD Samsung drive and accidentally dropped it about a meter onto hard flooring. I loaded up my project, and everything seems fine, but because it is a very large project, I am concerned that the drop may have caused certain clips to deteriorate or disappear or otherwise alter without my knowledge. Is this possible, or would any damage to the drive be immediately detected? Thank you.

Bumping this once just in case someone’s had similar experiences.

No, we've been using an internal 4TB SSD for Cache & Gallery Stills, and an external 16TB SSD RAID drive for source files from current projects. Zero issues "so far." Everything is backed up to spinning RAIDs in the (unlikely) event of a crash or malfunction. But nothing gets dropped.

We tend to keep the drives on very secure cabinets or table tops where there's zero chance of them falling to the floor, but anything can happen. It'd be tough for the chips in an SSD to get damaged, but I could see cases where the chipset pins might partly or completely come out of the socket. I know of portable sound devices (Sound Devices and Zaxcom) where this happened, not from being dropped, but from being bumped around in portable shipping cases.

Thanks for that detail! The sturdiness of SSDs on account of no ambulant parts is why I back up all my files on them. My (perhaps irrational) concern is of “surreptitious” damage, e.g., the drop somehow did hairline damage to some internal chip that resulted in a clip in my project to acquire altered settings/structure/placement, or wholly disappear, which I would not know unless I had perfect recall of what it looked like before (or compared hours of playback from an earlier export). From what I understand of SSDs, this isn’t possible, or if it is, it is extremely unlikely, assuming the drive starts up fine and acts as before the trauma in question.