[Wolves] Tinkle tinkle little disk...

[Kevanf1]

On 05/01/2008, Peter Oliver <p.d.oliver at mavit.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, Adam Sweet wrote:
>
> > Google did a study on disk failures over a period of around 5 years and
> > found that heavy usage and high temperature were overstated factors. In
> > fact in most cases, low temperature and infrequent usage were most
> > common in failed drives, apart from in very old and very new disks,
> > which were susceptible to high temps and heavy usage.
>
> I accidentally unplugged my PC while it was running a few weeks ago, which
> trashed one of the sectors on the disk.  One to avoid.
>

Well it's never recommended unplugging the PC when it's working but
how can we avoid power cuts?  Which would be the same thing?  Yes, I
know about UPS but how many people realistically have a UPS at home.
No, that sounds strange for a sector to be trashed just due to a power
outage...  It should have automatically gone back to its park
position.  There shouldn't be any damage as the heads don't actually
touch the platters.


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Kevan Farmer
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Staffordshire