A drop from average eye level onto a solid floor can cause a hard drive to crash if it's spinning and not parked.
Methinks you're thinking of the drives from the 90's!! They are very robust now, and most, like the camera I mentioned, have anti-shock in them.

Tapes....move rapidly, and you get blocks on the tape, DVD...move quickly, bang it, DVD corrupts.......ANY dropped camera will possibly break something...so you don't drop them!!!

Never dropped a camera in my life.

If hard drives survive a journey on the Space Shuttle, they'll pretty much survive anything.