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Date:      Thu, 5 Mar 2009 15:25:17 +0100
From:      Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Spin down HDD after disk sync or before power off
Message-ID:  <20090305142517.GA2773@britannica.bec.de>
In-Reply-To: <200903050758.n257wod8088426@lurza.secnetix.de>
References:  <20090304195614.GA179@britannica.bec.de> <200903050758.n257wod8088426@lurza.secnetix.de>

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On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 08:58:50AM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote:
>  > This is not true. Many hard disks don't like having to do an emergency
>  > shutdown as it affects the disk life time negatively. That's what
>  > happens if you poweroff the machine when the disks are still spinning.
> 
> Can you point to any authoritative information (URL) about
> that claim, such as vendor specs, white paper or similar?

Not without digging. NetBSD PR 21531 had a reference, but that is dead
nowadays.

Joerg



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