On 2015-10-22, Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote: > >> Many months ago there was a thread about >> longevity of hard drives related to how many boots in their lifetimes. > > Nonsense. If the boot count mattered for hard disk longevity, there > would be a SMART attribute for it. There is none. > There exists a similar "fallacy" concerning light bulbs (if we're talking hard (re)boot, change of phase).