Tim writes:
Allegedly, on or about 28 January 2013, Sam Varshavchik sent: > 1) The hard drive does an emergency park of the R/W head. That does > incur some cost, in terms of wear and tear. Are there any consumer hard drives that still do a controlled park, rather than just get switched off?
On my laptop with a ~4 year old hard drive, there's quite an audible difference between a forcible power-off, with a clunk, and an orderly shutdown that turns the power off quietly.
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