On Thursday 19 July 2007 01:28, Anno v. Heimburg wrote: > I remember a rather old (mid-90s) study done by WD which concluded that > a start-up poses wear on the HD equivalent to 30h of idling. I can't > find it any more, and it's been ten years, so things might be different > these days, but the point stands: A start-up comes with significant > wear.
Years ago drives suffered from "stiction" (not sure whether modern drives have the same problem). > IIRC, at some point, IBM even produced very high performance hard disks > for the mainframe market that would run for years, but were only > guaranteed to survive two spin-ups. > > Anno. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
