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SubjectRe: Disk spin down issue on shut down/suspend to disk
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Aug 2007, Tejun Heo wrote:
>> emergency unload. Emergency unload does shorten the lifespan of the
>> disk but you don't have to worry too much about it. Disks are designed
>> to withstand certain number of emergency unloads.
>
> You *do* have to worry about it in any box you turn off daily. Desktop HDs
> will croak fast in that scenario, laptop HDs less so, but still too fast.
>
> A very good laptop HD can last about 20k emergency unloads (this is a unit
> that can do about 600k normal unloads in its lifetime). Desktop and server
> HDs don't even come close to those numbers, last time I checked.

It only matters on hard drives which actually use load-unload heads.
Lots of desktop/server drives (perhaps some laptop ones as well) still
use contact start/stop, which doesn't remove the heads from the platters
on shutdown but just parks the heads over the landing zone. I don't
think arbitrary power-offs make too much difference on those drives.
(However, these generally aren't rated to handle as many start/stop
cycles, which is why laptop drives generally use load/unload instead.)

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