Power down disk drive or not - when used two or three times per day
Chris Green
cl at isbd.net
Wed Feb 16 10:57:04 UTC 2022
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
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