On Tue, 07 Aug 2007, Tejun Heo wrote: > emergency unload. Emergency unload does shorten the lifespan of the > disk but you don't have to worry too much about it. Disks are designed > to withstand certain number of emergency unloads. You *do* have to worry about it in any box you turn off daily. Desktop HDs will croak fast in that scenario, laptop HDs less so, but still too fast. A very good laptop HD can last about 20k emergency unloads (this is a unit that can do about 600k normal unloads in its lifetime). Desktop and server HDs don't even come close to those numbers, last time I checked. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
