On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 17:56 -0400, Celejar wrote: > Do you have reason to believe this, or a source, or are you just > expressing your opinion, unshackled by facts and data? > > Quite likely not, but who said that that will be due to excessive > spinups / spindowns?
It's the kind of breakage, the click click click noise, which is the most common death, then heads often only can be released, if you use a hammer or similar and hit the drive. The rest is the math I've written > > 5 reboots a day = 10 cycles > > 10 cycles * 365 days = 3650 cycles > > 3650 cycles * 10 years = 36500 cycles Isn't that plausible? I'm the source, I care for facts, not for claims from vendors. Regards, Ralf -- 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/1382487184.3610.164.camel@archlinux