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From: Crayon Shin Chan <crayon.shin.chan.uk@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Linux becomes expensive ;)
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 22:29:29
Message-Id: 200707220622.35652.crayon.shin.chan.uk@gmail.com
1 On Thursday 19 July 2007 01:28, Anno v. Heimburg wrote:
2
3 > I remember a rather old (mid-90s) study done by WD which concluded that
4 > a start-up poses wear on the HD equivalent to 30h of idling. I can't
5 > find it any more, and it's been ten years, so things might be different
6 > these days, but the point stands: A start-up comes with significant
7 > wear.
8
9 Years ago drives suffered from "stiction" (not sure whether modern drives
10 have the same problem).
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13 > IIRC, at some point, IBM even produced very high performance hard disks
14 > for the mainframe market that would run for years, but were only
15 > guaranteed to survive two spin-ups.
16 >
17 > Anno.
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