Holding down the power button when the systems freezes

[Sam Varshavchik]

Tim writes:

> 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?

On my laptop with a ~4 year old hard drive, there's quite an audible  
difference between a forcible power-off, with a clunk, and an orderly  
shutdown that turns the power off quietly.

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