According to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Andy Spiegl writes: > > I read that when a disk has been running for a very long time it sort of > > dug a ditch into the ball bearing. And when it spins up after a shutdown > > chances are high it won't find that 'ditch' or stumbles across it and > > fails. > > You read wrong. I doubt anyone has made a disk that doesn't use air > bearings for decades. Oh, okay, I didn't know that. But I wrote "sort of" to express that I am not exactly sure what is happening. But the effect is just as if that what I described is happening. The real technical reason may be different. Oh, boy this paragraph is screwed up. I hope you could follow my thoughts.
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