Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 22:54:22 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best kind of hard drive for heavy use? Message-ID: <1473886462.3232.25.camel@alice-dsl.net> 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>
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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
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