On Fri, 4 Oct 2024 23:44:01 -0700 Will Mengarini <[email protected]> wrote:
> As for the noise > of the heads, there was none, probably because the operating > system never saw the disk so never tried to read the disk. There is always head movement when a drive first spins up. Part of shutting a drive down is moving the heads to a safe zone such that if any vibration causes the heads to hit the platter it won't damage any surface with data on it. Part of spinning up is moving the heads back to the middle of the drive so that the first access will be quicker. However, head movement isn't always audible. 3½" and 5¼" drives aren't usually audible, although I've had a few very noisy 5¼ drives. And of course SSDs are utterly silent. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
