Parking disk drive heads
Doug Ambrisko
ambrisko at ambrisko.com
Sat Aug 20 03:59:51 GMT 2005
Julian Elischer writes:
| just placing an unmounted drive down on a hard table, even when
| not running, can ruin it. We lost hundreds that way at Whistle until
| we did a failure analysis. Just placing a rubber mat on the table.
| fixed it and instructing the staff to always put the drives on
| a soft surface made the problem go right away.
Not quite. Burn-in helped more. A few were head slaps but more was
just media that needed exercising. It's the "lands minds" that bite you
more when it has swap or other critical data on it.
A little historical correction.
Flash is nice but it has some issues. Atleast dropping it isn't one!
Doug A.
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