2009/12/25 Paul M l...@no-tek.com:
Here we're talking about 2 separate cases, electrical and mechanical.
In electrical componentry, it's power up/power down that compromises the
reliability of a part (circuit). This is primarily due to heat - it's the
temperature cycling in the circuit
hi there,
i have a usb external disk that spins down grotesquely
soon, 10s of inactivity sends it sleeping. hearing the
disk spin up every time makes me think how soon it will
die if i keep this up for long.
as atactl is not working for external ata disks used
through the scsi layer, i was
On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:46:47 +0100
frantisek holop min...@obiit.org wrote:
hi there,
i have a usb external disk that spins down grotesquely
soon, 10s of inactivity sends it sleeping. hearing the
disk spin up every time makes me think how soon it will
die if i keep this up for long.
as
I wouldn't think that spinning up frequently would shorten
it's life any more than if it stayed spinning. It may be very
irritating from a performance point of view though.
I would think that bouncing the head round doing frequent
reads/writes would be much more destructive.
If one were to
Small bug, potential race condition. Also may not be accurate when
load is high. Change sleep 9 recommended :) :P
-Tai
On 12/24/09, frantisek holop min...@obiit.org wrote:
hi there,
i have a usb external disk that spins down grotesquely
soon, 10s of inactivity sends it sleeping.
On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 10:16 +1300, Paul M l...@no-tek.com wrote:
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Try a different usb enclosure.
Some Seagate FreeAgent enclosures do this. Seagate forums have lots of
complaints about it. Research before buying another enclosure. I purchased a
FreeAgent a few years ago before this issue
hmm, on Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 10:16:28AM +1300, Paul M said that
I wouldn't think that spinning up frequently would shorten
it's life any more than if it stayed spinning. It may be very
irritating from a performance point of view though.
i am no hard disk expert, but i was taught at school that
Here we're talking about 2 separate cases, electrical and mechanical.
In electrical componentry, it's power up/power down that compromises the
reliability of a part (circuit). This is primarily due to heat - it's
the
temperature cycling in the circuit components thats the bad guy.
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