can a wrong alignment cause a decrease in a hdd's life expectancy?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20111219224700.GA75581 at freebsd.org>, Alexander Best writes:
>On Mon Dec 19 11, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> In message <20111219221617.GA70383 at freebsd.org>, Alexander Best writes:
>> 
>> >ps: the hdd only gets mounted read-only!
>> 
>> There is no known wear-effects in flash storage as long as you
>> only read.
>> 
>> You may need to do refresh-writes every 5-10 years to avoid
>> tunnel-leakage bit errors, but most flash controllers use semi-long
>> ECC syndromes and will do so on first bit that gives an read error.
>
>this is a regular hdd i believe -- no ssd. at least when i plug it into my
>usb drive i hear the hdd spinning up and causing vibrations. i don't think
>that would be the case with an ssd.

Ahh, sorry, I don't know why I thought it was flash.


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