Holding down the power button when the systems freezes

[Tim]

Allegedly, on or about 28 January 2013, Sam Varshavchik sent:
> 1) The hard drive does an emergency park of the R/W head. That does
> incur some cost, in terms of wear and tear.

Are there any consumer hard drives that still do a controlled park,
rather than just get switched off?

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