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