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. Permalink Parent 2
alwayswinning7892 t1_ixzn3wi wrote
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.