A hard drive fuse?

[UnauthorizedDuck]

I had this simple idea earlier. Maybe someone else has had this idea too.
How many of you have had a hard drive die? A good many, no? In my experience (I have had entirely too much experience, here), drives will die in one of two manners. One, the disk surface develops physical errors (bad sectors) or also in this category, the innards simply become faulty. I don't know how to fix that one =P The second way, I've noticed, is if the little circuit board on the underside of the drive dies.

Now, because of CRAP components and whatnot, I've had two different drives, in different rigs, die from the latter method. An electric shock goes right through, and destroys this little board. On one of the drives, I actually saw the spark.

SO....my simple idea, is that maybe hard drives should have fuses on them somewhere? Perhaps where the MOLEX connector supplies its power? Is this idea feasible or dumb? I don't know how many amps such a fuse should be able to handle, but I imagine it'd be a cheap way to protect your hardware from an odd problem that I'm sure doesn't just affect me.

Thoughts?

 

[sharkeeper]

Fuses are overcurrent devices in the absolute interest in protecting personnel and property. They aren't designed to protect components from damage. A transistor is the fastest fuse!

Cheers!

 

[Lore]

I think that drives already have fuses by the power connector. I've seen a few of them burn out for one reason or another. (This was on SCSI drives)

 

[Mark R]

I don't think I've seen fuses on any IDE drives - anyway, the role of a fuse is not to protect the device, but to protect the power cable and power supply from fire.

 

[UnauthorizedDuck]

well, SOMETHING should protect the device!

ah, if only i were an inventor instead of a vague-idea-man, i'd be rich instead of confused.