Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD
On Wednesday 04 March 2020 22:26:34 Michael Stone wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 06:53:12PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >On Wednesday 04 March 2020 18:49:06 Michael Stone wrote:
> >> On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 06:39:51PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> >On Wednesday 04 March 2020 12:48:57 rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> >> >> * 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
> >> >
> >> >Would that not be logged as an access error, followed by a
> >> > reset/restart in the logs? At the very minimum it should be
> >> > logged so that the user can know the drive is doing that.
> >>
> >> no, not unless something is horribly broken
> >
> >That is lieing to the user, and not nice at all.
>
> Why on earth would you expect an error? That's just nuts.
No its not. If the disk is asked for data from such and such a sector in
order to issue a stop command to a machine, IMO it has its seek time + 1
revolution to get that data under a head and read. If its spun down then
it will have to also spin the drive up which may take 2 or 3 seconds.
That IMNSHO is a huge error that in some scenarios, could get somebody
maimed or killed.
So we'll have to agree to disagree.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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