Summary: Re: Spin down HDD after disk sync or before power off

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Thu Oct 21 14:48:25 UTC 2010


Alexander Best <arundel at freebsd.org> writes:
> no need to get upset. you asked where i found the information regarding the
> wear impact of spinning down disks and i gave you the answer.

I am upset by your claim that "doing spin downs upon reboot might be
even worse than not doing spindowns upon shutdown", because you should
know better, and following your advice could damage people's hardware.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des at des.no


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