Can the iPod Video disk break if you move it whie running?

If I say run or dance to the iPod Video music would the hard drive break?

i've had two disk-based ipods die when running with them, both wth disk failure (reported by ipod diagnostics), others have reported similar woes over the years
even if it doesn't kill the ipod, there's the chance of it hanging if bounced when accessing disk (the skip protection is quoted at up to 20-25 minutes i think, but that is based on spinning up the disk every 20-25 minutes to refill the buffer, not on opportunistic refill to always mantain the buffer near full, so at least with the old firmware if the ipod was subjected to enough vibration when it tried to reload the buffer it would hang)
imho it does depend on running style and how the ipod is carried, so some people may run/jog without problems
i bought a nano for running, no more problems

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