Power down disk drive or not - when used two or three times per day

[Chris Green]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 10:47:14AM +0000, Colin Law wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2022 at 10:13, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > ...
> > in my experiences 3 times parking and spinning up a day and your HDDs
> > will likely die after around 2 years
> 
> Does that mean that for my four year old laptop, which I suspend maybe
> a dozen times a day, you think the HDD should have died about 3.5
> years ago?
> 
:-)  However laptop drives are supposed to be more robust and designed
for frequent on/off cycles aren't they.

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Chris Green