alwayswinning7892 t1_ixzn3wi wrote on November 27, 2022 at 5:18 PM

Reply to comment by BlowjobPete in ELI5: Why is it bad to turn off your computer by the button, if windows goes through the shutdown process anyway? by tjiosse

I've heard with the older style platter hard drives which spun and had arms which read the data it was possible to physically damage them if the read heads did not have time to "park" correctly but I'm not sure if this was really true.

icefire555 t1_ixzpw0y wrote on November 27, 2022 at 5:37 PM

That is not correct. I didn't down vote you though. The heads on a drive move in and out along the disk. But not up and down. Even today hard drives are in use and it's more a concern of stopping it mid write than anything else.