On Sun, 2023-08-20 at 11:04 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > My experience has been that manufacturers have become good at optimizing > drives so they start failing just after the warranty ends. Gonna jinx it, but I've had a good run with drives lasting eons, with the exception of several ones failing in an iMac (the same machine). And it's such a pain to change the drives buried within that hardware. Also, that iMac has much less use than any other PC, here. I have some 1980-1990s Amigas around here that still work, though there is one that needs a slap to get the hard drive to unstick and spin up. I did pull apart another completely stuck drive, and found that the arm that tracks the heads over the single disk platter is a y-shaped fork that holds the heads either side of the platter moves too far into the centre of the drive, and the centre of the Y branch of the fork grabs the disk platter. I always thought the head arm should move the other way at shut-off and stay off the platter. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.92.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 20 11:48:01 UTC 2023 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue