On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 04:36:24PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Gregory Nowak wrote:
> > Bob Proulx wrote:
> > > That is my normal method of sleeping my laptop. I consider it a
> > > feature. It sleeps when I tell it to and not just because I closed
> > > the lid. Allows me to carry my laptop from here to there and open it
> > > and not have it asleep and needing to reconnect and not having killed
> > > my ssh logins. (And without using screen, autossh or mosh. Although
> > > connections over the vpn will bridge.)
> >
> > This begs the question, though not directly related to debian. For
> > those of us with electro-mechanical drives, is it safe to carry the
> > laptop while the hard drive is running? In the old days, moving a
> > running hd was a major no-no.
>
> Rotating disk drives in a laptop? How quaint! :-) (Still using them
> in servers though. Big SSDs are very expensive.)
They'll be quaint when you can buy 500 GB or 1TB SSDs without selling
the children and leasing out the wife. Yes, I know you said they were
expensive but just how expensive is beyond a lot of peoples reach.
.......snip......
>
> I think those usually have shock sensors in them. When they sense
> force they park or otherwise safe the head. Are there any of those
> with spinning media still being produced? I thought they have all
> gone to solid state media now.
Guess again.
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