On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 03:30:14PM -0600, Octavian Covalschi wrote: > Why is spinning down is bad for HDD ? I believe it's better to spindown a > drive, > instead of cutting power too sudden.
Comparing those two, I'd say it shouldn't matter (although probably a forced spindown may be better). But pulling power from a drive does not mean the drive immediately stops doing stuff. I was just saying spindown on disks is bad in the first place. Sure, you might save some wear and tear on the bearings, but you risk problems with the heads on both spindown and spinup. In other words, if you can avoid power-cycling your drives, they should last longer (in that you're less likely to destroy the heads). -- Rick C. Petty _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
