Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 08:07:53 -0400 From: Quartz <quartz@sneakertech.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stop using a SATA drive Message-ID: <55DEFD99.6080802@sneakertech.com> In-Reply-To: <55DEFC1A.4040806@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <CAPi0psvT5aaHR7kU%2B28qwVDdutyMn7LjhFUGZRWctz4gGfgvgw@mail.gmail.com> <20150824214252.53aa04c6.freebsd@edvax.de> <CAPi0psu5pP_Z7FcR8h5cQAZiZyDmQTKWzFx-17tUEV5g-%2B7hjw@mail.gmail.com> <55DEFA0F.9000900@sneakertech.com> <55DEFC1A.4040806@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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> Electric motors will act as generators: the trick with modern drives is > that they use the inertia of the spinning disk platters to generate > sufficient power to move the heads to the parked position when the > external power goes out. Hmm.... ok, that's different from how it was explained to me. I was also told that this procedure was faintly harder on the drive than issuing a real 'park' command (in the sense that it's basically slamming the emergency stop button). What's your take on that?
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