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"Check it out, I've got terabytes on this small sheet of glass!"
proceeds to drop the glass
"Well... shit."
proceeds to drop the hard drive
"Well... shit."
I mean a solid state drive is probably going to have a better chance of surviving a drop than one made of glass. A platter drive, yeah, fair.
proceeds to drop the off site data center
"Well... shit. There goes my 3-2-1 backup strategy."
The metal platters, if not literally sliced with a chainsaw or drilled down, can be removed and read for data access, the glass cannot.