Quote Originally Posted by bluestang View Post
WTF, since when has Crucial used SF?
I expect he meant Corsair, not Crucial

Quote Originally Posted by Christopher View Post
Regarding the disconnect, it's basically just like the drive gets turned off -- vaguely like unplugging the power to the drive while it's operating. I'm going to get it set up today as a secondary.
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Anvil, is there anyway to extrapolate more detailed time information from the smart data? Like power on minutes and seconds in addition to hours?
Using it as a secondary drive is much less hassle, just make sure that you have quick/easy access to the drive for physical disconnect, otherwise there is no way but to reboot.

Yes, there is a way to read minutes and seconds, the OCZ Toolbox or smartmontools or maybe both.