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Making a computer with a single storage-device and bad supply of power more reliable [closed]

If you were willing to sacrifice the effective performance and capacity of a storage-device, can you get extra reliability somehow? All help appreciated. Edit: I found this wikilink: http://en....
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Can a hard drive be spinned down when using ext3 filesystem?

Recently a buddy of mine has pointed out in his blog (in Russian) that hard drives that use the ext3 filesystem can not be spun down because of the need to frequently write data. According to him, it ...
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