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Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD

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rhkramer@gmail.com wrote: 
> On Wednesday, March 04, 2020 09:47:47 AM Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> > Gene didn't address my problem, but made the very useful observation
> > that disks spinning 24/7 don't really die. Perhaps I shouldn't worry
> > about replacing them.
> 
> I wouldn't count on that, for two reasons:
> 
>    * everything mechanical wears, and eventually wears out (well, maybe not if 
> the bearings are a magnetic suspension type) (no moving parts in contact)
> 
>    * I suspect most of us don't know whether our disks are spinning 24/7 -- 
> some of my computers are up 24/7, but I suspect the disks "spin down" when 
> unused for some period of time

Some do, some don't. Drives sold as "laptop" or "green" drives
are more likely to do so by themselves.

There used to be (still?) a set of Western Digital drives that
would go into a hard sleep and park their heads repeatedly. This 
tended to cause a shortened lifespan as well as terrible
performance.

-dsr-

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Advice on upgrading to SSD Tony van der Hoff <lists@vanderhoff.org> - 2020-03-02 12:30 +0100
  Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-03-02 14:00 +0100
    Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Tony van der Hoff <lists@vanderhoff.org> - 2020-03-04 15:50 +0100
      Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD grumpy@mailfence.com - 2020-03-04 16:10 +0100
      Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-03-04 17:10 +0100
        Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2020-03-04 19:00 +0100
      Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-03-04 18:50 +0100
        Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-03-04 19:00 +0100
          Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2020-03-04 20:30 +0100
          Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD "007@caiway.net" <007@caiway.net> - 2020-03-05 06:50 +0100
            Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Klaus Singvogel <deb-user-ml@singvogel.net> - 2020-03-05 08:30 +0100
              Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-03-05 18:20 +0100
                Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2020-03-05 18:30 +0100
                Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Klaus Singvogel <klaus@singvogel.net> - 2020-03-05 19:00 +0100
        Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-03-05 00:50 +0100
          Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-03-05 01:00 +0100
            Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-03-05 04:30 +0100
              Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-03-05 04:40 +0100
            Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-03-05 09:30 +0100
              Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-03-05 16:20 +0100
                Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-03-05 20:00 +0100
                Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-03-06 00:00 +0100
        Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-03-05 00:50 +0100
      Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-03-05 03:40 +0100
  Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-03-02 16:40 +0100
    Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD basti <basti@unix-solution.de> - 2020-03-02 17:30 +0100
      Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-03-02 20:00 +0100
    Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-03-03 09:30 +0100
  Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2020-03-02 19:20 +0100
    Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Alex Mestiashvili <amestia@rsh2.donotuse.de> - 2020-03-02 20:40 +0100
  Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-03-02 20:20 +0100
    Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Sarunas Burdulis <sarunas@math.dartmouth.edu> - 2020-03-02 20:30 +0100
      Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-03-02 20:30 +0100
        Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-03-02 22:10 +0100
  Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2020-03-03 01:50 +0100
    Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Geoff <unit735@bigpond.com> - 2020-03-03 10:20 +0100

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