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Cc: Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org>, Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org>,
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Subject: Re: Summary: Re: Spin down HDD after disk sync or before power off
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On Sunday 24 October 2010 18:47:57 Alexander Motin wrote:
> I am not sure, but have feeling that tape drives (for example) may
> also benefit from head parking before powering down.

USB hard disks would benefit as well I think. Although, ideally it
should happen after unmounting the last file system.

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