> I spin them down nowadays, as modern disks are used in notebooks so I
> assume the mechanisms are better at coping with stopping and starting.
I heard that manufacturers today build drives with different robustness
to fit the environment they're supposed to live in. For example, bigfatfast
server drives are optimized for running 24h most of their lives, and
every spin down-up cycle will cost a good bunch of lifetime.
Then there are drives designed for say laptops, optimized for being
"stable" enough for lots of such cycles. Desktop drives are somewhere
inbetween.
> Also, disks and fans are so noisy.
Yep. Rumors go that 7,200 rpm are real fun.
johnny
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