From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Sep 14 21:10:08 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE090BDBF23 for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2016 21:10:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net) Received: from mail92c50.megamailservers.eu (mail1410c50.megamailservers.eu [91.136.14.10]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 13E9D1AD7 for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2016 21:10:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net) X-Authenticated-User: ralf.mardorf.alice-dsl.net Received: from archlinux.localdomain (x5ce0d382.dyn.telefonica.de [92.224.211.130]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail92c50.megamailservers.eu (8.14.9/8.13.1) with ESMTP id u8EKsM67001848 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2016 20:54:24 +0000 Message-ID: <1473886462.3232.25.camel@alice-dsl.net> Subject: Re: Best kind of hard drive for heavy use? From: Ralf Mardorf To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 22:54:22 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20160914212545.144b0719@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <42.56.05022.D3A48D75@dnvrco-oedge02> <20160913213649.3a3f26b2@archlinux.localdomain> <0d1b8dba-3292-9991-ea7d-f160c25090c8@netfence.it> <20160914051806.297c0c3f@archlinux.localdomain> <20160914143327.3b7d3c36@gumby.homeunix.com> <12225.128.135.52.6.1473864923.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> <20160914212545.144b0719@gumby.homeunix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.20.5 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A0B0205.57D9B900.007A, ss=1, re=0.000, recu=0.000, reip=0.000, cl=1, cld=1, fgs=0 X-CTCH-VOD: Unknown X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown X-CTCH-Score: 0.000 X-CTCH-Rules: X-CTCH-Flags: 0 X-CTCH-ScoreCust: 0.000 X-CSC: 0 X-CHA: v=2.1 cv=KYTr72oD c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=AMOkcjiMFFgm5N5X39GpzQ==:117 a=AMOkcjiMFFgm5N5X39GpzQ==:17 a=L9H7d07YOLsA:10 a=9cW_t1CCXrUA:10 a=s5jvgZ67dGcA:10 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=u7yCsFX0oVeB7OwqaIYA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 21:10:08 -0000 On Wed, 2016-09-14 at 21:25 +0100, RW via freebsd-questions wrote: > It seems to me that if you want to maximize the life of a consumer > drive you have to let it spin-down. I used several drives with computers that were turned off and on several times a day. Those drives only last for around 2 years. My current internal non-green drives are often running for 8 days, before I turn of the home computer, their running times are already around 4 years, their lifetimes are older. Most, if not all my drives that get borked, couldn't release the heads anymore. Btw. if you need to get data from such a drive, that wasn't backuped, you could use a hammer or something similar and hit the drive, to release the heads. Regards, Ralf