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From: Crayon Shin Chan <crayon.shin.chan.uk@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  Re: Re: Linux becomes expensive ;)
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 06:22:34 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200707220622.35652.crayon.shin.chan.uk@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7lij3$21m$1@sea.gmane.org>

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.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-07-21 22:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-02 17:55 [gentoo-user] Linux becomes expensive ;) Florian Philipp
2007-06-02 18:03 ` Jeff Horelick
2007-06-03 10:36   ` Timo Boettcher
2007-06-03 17:33     ` Ralf Stephan
2007-06-03 11:16   ` Florian Philipp
2007-06-03 16:03     ` Dan Farrell
2007-06-03 16:24       ` Florian Philipp
2007-06-03 17:06         ` Ryan Sims
2007-06-03 17:37           ` Florian Philipp
2007-06-03 17:43             ` Florian Philipp
2007-06-03 17:49             ` Dan Farrell
2007-07-18 12:40               ` [gentoo-user] " Hendrik Boom
2007-07-18 15:44                 ` Ryan Sims
2007-07-18 16:32                   ` Julian Simioni
     [not found]                     ` <f7lij3$21m$1@sea.gmane.org>
2007-07-21 22:22                       ` Crayon Shin Chan [this message]
2007-06-03 17:19 ` [gentoo-user] " Elias Probst
2007-06-03 17:46   ` Florian Philipp
2007-06-03 18:05     ` Dan Farrell

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