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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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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