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Re: What's the best way to preserve a HDD by software stopping the power?

From Rene Lamontagne <rlamont@shaw.ca>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-10, microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Subject Re: What's the best way to preserve a HDD by software stopping the power?
Date 2018-10-16 20:12 -0500
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On 10/16/2018 8:07 PM, Lucifer wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 10:28:30 +0200, "R.Wieser" <address@not.available>
> wrote:
> 
>> Mike,
>>
>>> I put a switch in the +5V and +12V on mine.
>>> Takes a few clicks to take it offline so you can cut the power safely.
>>
>> And I hope you *never* forget to shut your computer down first, otherwise
>> its very likely it gets corrupted (nonwithstanding the fact that the NTFS
>> filesystem has already mechanisms in place to recover from it, and you won't
>> even notice it most of the time)
>>
>> (some removable drive bays even offer a magnetic mechanism to lock the bay
>> in place to fix exactly that kind of mind-lapse problems)
>>
>> As you feel confident enough about electronics to put a switch into those
>> lines, maybe you should think of (or google for) a solution that will
>> disallow you to power-off a drive thats already been powered on.
>>
>> One of those solutions could involve a (rather oldfashioned, but still
>> applicable) use of a relais.
> 
> What is a relais?
> 
>> Regards,
>> Rudy Wieser

think *relay*


Rene

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What's the best way to preserve a HDD by software stopping the power? "Arlen H. Holder" <arlenholder@nospam.net> - 2018-09-25 14:46 +0000
  Re: What's the best way to preserve a HDD by software stopping the power? Sjouke Burry <burrynulnulfour@ppllaanneett.nnll> - 2018-09-25 19:47 +0200
    Re: What's the best way to preserve a HDD by software stopping the power? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2018-09-25 22:37 +0200
      Re: What's the best way to preserve a HDD by software stopping the power? "Arlen H. Holder" <arlenholder@nospam.net> - 2018-09-25 21:46 +0000
      Re: What's the best way to preserve a HDD by software stopping the power? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-25 19:02 -0400
        Re: What's the best way to preserve a HDD by software stopping the power? "Arlen H. Holder" <arlenholder@nospam.net> - 2018-09-25 23:39 +0000
          Re: What's the best way to preserve a HDD by software stopping the power? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2018-09-26 10:13 +0200
            Re: What's the best way to preserve a HDD by software stopping the power? "Arlen H. Holder" <arlenholder@nospam.net> - 2018-09-26 11:52 +0000
              Re: What's the best way to preserve a HDD by software stopping the power? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2018-09-26 15:27 +0200
                Re: What's the best way to preserve a HDD by software stopping the power? "Arlen H. Holder" <arlenholder@nospam.net> - 2018-09-26 13:40 +0000
                Re: What's the best way to preserve a HDD by software stopping the power? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2018-09-26 16:24 +0200
                Re: What's the best way to preserve a HDD by software stopping the power? "Arlen H. Holder" <arlenholder@nospam.net> - 2018-09-26 14:58 +0000
                Re: What's the best way to preserve a HDD by software stopping the power? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2018-09-26 18:14 +0200
  Re: What's the best way to preserve a HDD by software stopping the power? mike <ham789@netzero.net> - 2018-09-25 17:32 -0700
    Re: What's the best way to preserve a HDD by software stopping the power? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2018-09-26 10:28 +0200
      Re: What's the best way to preserve a HDD by software stopping the power? Lucifer <LuciferMorningstar@bigpond.com> - 2018-10-17 12:07 +1100
        Re: What's the best way to preserve a HDD by software stopping the power? Rene Lamontagne <rlamont@shaw.ca> - 2018-10-16 20:12 -0500
          Re: What's the best way to preserve a HDD by software stopping the power? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2018-10-17 10:06 +0200
            Re: What's the best way to preserve a HDD by software stopping the power? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2018-10-17 15:11 +0000
              Re: What's the best way to preserve a HDD by software stopping the power? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2018-10-17 20:53 +0200
                Re: What's the best way to preserve a HDD by software stopping the power? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2018-10-17 19:18 +0000
        Re: What's the best way to preserve a HDD by software stopping the power? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2018-10-17 10:01 +0200
          Re: What's the best way to preserve a HDD by software stopping the power? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2018-10-17 11:26 +0200
    Re: What's the best way to preserve a HDD by software stopping the power? Lucifer <LuciferMorningstar@bigpond.com> - 2018-09-28 06:53 +1000

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