Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Jun 2004 09:47:39 -0600 | From | "Eric D. Mudama" <> | Subject | Re: Question about IDE disk shutdown |
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On Tue, Jun 1 at 17:13, Tvrtko A. Ur?ulin wrote: >According to my hard disk manual, it is absolutely recommended to put the >drive in STANDBY or SLEEP mode before power cut-off because in that way heads >are nicely parked. In that way it is guaranteed to have 300000 head >load/unload cycles minimum, while in other case it is just 20000 cycles.
All "modern" drives have plenty of back-EMF to park the heads properly when power fails.
Remember that even if you are limited to 20,000 power cycles reliably, that's over 5 reboots every day for 10 years, well over the expected lifetime of the drive. (unless you run windows yuk yuk)
-- Eric D. Mudama edmudama@mail.bounceswoosh.org
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