Re: OT: Yet Another Unhappy Customer for Vista

Rich Grise wrote:

On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:20:02 +0000, Joerg wrote:

Jasen wrote:

On 2007-06-03, Joerg <notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


No problem but that's another piece of equipment to maintain. Batteries etc. It should be no big deal to provide a large enough electrolytic to safely park the HD heads. Then again, I have learned that one cannot always assume sufficient smartness in new product designs these days.

??? the return spring should be stiff enough to safely park the heads
before the platter spins down

With the emphasis on the word "should" ;-)


It's been decades since I've seen a drive that doesn't self-park.

Unless drives these days don't even _need_ to be parked, in which
case "self-parking" would be kind of superfluous. :-)


Then why do manuals and people (including some here) advise against turning the power off without shutting down? To me this whole concept of having to shut down a PC never made sense. Unless it is because of, ahem, sloppy engineering inside the PC. All the equipment I ever designed can be powered off without notice and I don't plan to do otherwise in the future. Anyone who has ever traveled to places like eastern Europe knows why.

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