On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 04:36:24PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Gregory Nowak wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > That is my normal method of sleeping my laptop. I consider it a > > > feature. It sleeps when I tell it to and not just because I closed > > > the lid. Allows me to carry my laptop from here to there and open it > > > and not have it asleep and needing to reconnect and not having killed > > > my ssh logins. (And without using screen, autossh or mosh. Although > > > connections over the vpn will bridge.) > > > > This begs the question, though not directly related to debian. For > > those of us with electro-mechanical drives, is it safe to carry the > > laptop while the hard drive is running? In the old days, moving a > > running hd was a major no-no. > > Rotating disk drives in a laptop? How quaint! :-) (Still using them > in servers though. Big SSDs are very expensive.)
They'll be quaint when you can buy 500 GB or 1TB SSDs without selling
the children and leasing out the wife. Yes, I know you said they were
expensive but just how expensive is beyond a lot of peoples reach.
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> I think those usually have shock sensors in them. When they sense
> force they park or otherwise safe the head. Are there any of those
> with spinning media still being produced? I thought they have all
> gone to solid state media now.
Guess again.
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