> On power loss the drives will immediately lose power, they have little capacitors in them that allow the head to safely rest on power loss. (it used to be tha

> On power loss the drives will immediately lose power, they have little capacitors in them that allow the head to safely rest on power loss. (it used to be that the head just crashed into the spinning platter, can you even imagine). I remember as a kid running PARK.COM to park the heads before powering off the computer every night; I continued this habit for many years after I got my own computer, until I learned that hard drives now have mechanisms that make this unnecessary.