Time to spin down from 7200 RPM?

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Tom Del Rosso

Judging from the sound, the brakes on HDD's seem to stop them in under 10
seconds. How long do you wait after shutdown of an external drive before
moving it?
 
Judging from the sound, the brakes on HDD's seem to
stop them in under 10 seconds. How long do you wait
after shutdown of an external drive before moving it?
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Dont need to do anything special, that time is fine.
 
Tom Del Rosso said:
Judging from the sound, the brakes on HDD's seem to stop them in under 10
seconds. How long do you wait after shutdown of an external drive before
moving it?
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15-20 seconds.
 
How about this, how long do you think a guy should wait before turning a
hard drive back on? Do you think its bad for the motor or anything else to
power up the drive before it has fully stopped? This has been on my mind
when I want to restart my xbox. I usually wait until the drive is quiet (5
seconds?) and then power it back up. Considering the things some people do
to drives, which last a LONG time, I figure I should be Ok.

--Dan
 
How about this, how long do you think a guy should wait before turning a hard
drive back on?
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Doesnt matter.
Do you think its bad for the motor or anything else to power up the drive
before it has fully stopped?
Nope.

This has been on my mind when I want to restart my xbox. I usually wait until
the drive is quiet (5 seconds?) and then power it back up. Considering the
things some people do to drives, which last a LONG time, I figure I should be
Ok.
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Yeah, you'll be fine.
 
dg said:
How about this, how long do you think a guy should wait before turning a
hard drive back on? Do you think its bad for the motor or anything else to
power up the drive before it has fully stopped? This has been on my mind
when I want to restart my xbox. I usually wait until the drive is quiet (5
seconds?) and then power it back up. Considering the things some people do
to drives, which last a LONG time, I figure I should be Ok.
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If I have manual control the I wait for spindown before power on. BUT there
is no harm to not waiting unless you do it a zillion times in a row.
Notably doing that will likely overheat the drive and THAT will cause early
drive death.
 
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