On Mon, 2013-10-21 at 20:33 -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 10:54:57 +0200 > Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net> wrote: > > > On Sun, 2013-10-20 at 18:44 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > On Sun, 20 Oct 2013 20:15:06 +0200 > > > Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net> wrote: > > > > > > ... > > > > > > > Each time you reboot, you harm your HDDs. > > > > > > You do? > > > > Everybody does. The spin downs and spin ups are a mechanical strain. > > This is what cause the most often death of HDDs after a few years. > > Not sure I buy this - my understanding is that modern HDDs are > typically rated for several 100,000 spinup / spindown cycles, so while > I suppose that it's technically true that each cycle brings the drive > closer to failure, I'm not sure that it's really reasonable to worry > about things like several hundred or so additional reboots a year. > > Keyboard keys are also rated to last for some number of keypresses > (several 10,000,000) - should we warn people that every keypress harms > their keyboards? You might want to rethink the length of some of your > emails ;)
5 reboots a day = 10 cycles 10 cycles * 365 days = 3650 cycles 3650 cycles * 10 years = 36500 cycles I've got doubts that the click click click death will happen after several 100000 cycles. It likely will happen before 36500 cycles. I do not reboot 5 times each day, but I don't expect that my drives will survive for more than 10 years. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1382403372.11372.202.camel@archlinux
