On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 07:31:28PM -0500, Brad Alexander wrote: > I remember reading a report in the mid-90s stating that one of the biggest > life-shortening properties of powering on and off was heating and cooling > of the hard drive bearings. Now, that said, I do not know how much change > has occurred in hard drive bearings, though I would have to guess that > modern hard drives do not get as hot..
I'd be surprised¹ if manufacturers made drives to last a long time. You probably pay "through the nose" for the ones that are. ¹ If you assume the worst you'll never be unpleasantly surprised. :) -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- 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/20131210152439.GE23962@tal
