Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 18:06:13 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best kind of hard drive for heavy use? Message-ID: <20160914180613.1c0f4fc2@archlinux.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <33814.128.135.52.6.1473865794.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> References: <42.56.05022.D3A48D75@dnvrco-oedge02> <20160913213649.3a3f26b2@archlinux.localdomain> <0d1b8dba-3292-9991-ea7d-f160c25090c8@netfence.it> <20160914051806.297c0c3f@archlinux.localdomain> <20160914062154.7cbea049@archlinux.localdomain> <33814.128.135.52.6.1473865794.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu>
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On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 10:09:54 -0500 (CDT), Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> Sure, if a green drive is unwanted, nobody should buy a green >> drive. > >Yes, nobody should. Still, they do I bought my by accident, fortunately it doesn't matter, even while it's a backup drive, for my home computer. But since I care that it doesn't spin down and up too often, by allowing it to stay asleep and as a backup drive I often disconnect it, the drive is already nearly 4 years old, without every running into an issue. Anyway, next time I likely would buy a case with an USB controller and a separated non-green drive to mount into this case. Regards, Ralf
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