Comment by digi_owl
10 years ago
I seem to recall that this was very bad juju for old HDDs, in that it would quickly wear out the mechanics of the RW arm.
10 years ago
I seem to recall that this was very bad juju for old HDDs, in that it would quickly wear out the mechanics of the RW arm.
There are stories of really old hard drives being made to move around a room with abusive disk access patterns.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/W/walking-drives.html
"Some bands of old-time hackers figured out how to induce disk-accessing patterns that would do this to particular drive models and held disk-drive races."
Now that i would loved to be witness to.