[G4] Wear on Extra HD

[Harry Freeman]

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The never touch anything, whether the drive is running or not. When the 
drive is powered off the heads go into a parked condition, and when it 
is running they are in a flying condition and never touch the disk, if 
they do you have what is called a head crash.
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On Apr 24, 2007, at 12:26 PM, O'Brien wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:00:56 +0000, nagable at comcast.net wrote:
>> I think if the drive is plugged in, it runs whether or not it is
>> unmounted.  Unmounting may save wear and tear on the heads, but not
>> on the bearings.  Why don't you simply open the case and unplug the
>> power supply?
>
> But, the heads don't touch anything when the drive is running, do 
> they? plugging and unplugging the power seems like an awful lot of 
> trouble (and wear on the plug and socket). Those power plugs can often 
> be very difficult to get to and/or unplug. If the drive really doesn't 
> power down when unmounted (is this right?) and a person wants to not 
> have it running, it seems like a better choice would be to use an 
> external drive for backup. An external drive would have a power 
> switch.
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>
> O'Brien
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