On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 02:56:12 +0200 Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> 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 Do you have reason to believe this, or a source, or are you just expressing your opinion, unshackled by facts and data? > not reboot 5 times each day, but I don't expect that my drives will > survive for more than 10 years. Quite likely not, but who said that that will be due to excessive spinups / spindowns? FWIW, my ThinkPad T61 Hitachi's Load_Cycle_Count currently reads 700734 ... Celejar -- 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/20131022175600.9ec97c7b5b0172d614c9b...@gmail.com
