Request for simplified instructions for downloading and installing .tar.gz applications - Ventoy

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 2022-08-13 at 01:32 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> My understanding is that, when a spinning HDD is powered down, it needs 
> to be left off, for at least a minute, or so, before powering on again, 
> to avoid physical damage.

If plugging in the power jack of my external HDDs doesn't satisfy my
haptic expectation, I act obsessional neurotic by plugging the jack in
and out several times without waiting for at least a minute. The power
switch is unused, always in "on" position. I probably suffer from a
psychic damage, but my HDDs don't suffer from physical damages. It's
true that parking and releasing the heads wear out this part of the
drives, but it shouldn't make a big difference, if making a difference
at all, if you wait for at least a minute or not.

Reminds me of the ignition point of a combustion engine and the
allegedly dead center issue. In theory, if the ignition happens at the
wrong time, the piston might move down in the wrong direction. When we
were young and tuned our small mopeds we made a lot of mistakes, but if
an engine started with a completely wrong "adjusted" ignition point, the
only thing that never happens was a piston moving down on the wrong
side, I suspect that anything else bad that could happen happened.