> From: Paul Johnson, Saturday, January 25, 2003 8:02 AM
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 11:33:42AM +0100, Nicos Gollan wrote:
>
> > For some days now, I've been hearing repeated clicking sounds from
> > my harddisk, especially during I/O operations. From the sound of it,
> > it might be a seek to somewhere on the disk.
>
> Yes, probably if it's only happening during disk I/O.
>
[snip]
> * If you have any power saving features enabled for your hard drive,
> turn them off now. Spinning up again is a lot of wear on a hard
> disk, and if the disk is failing, it might not ever get
> moving again.
[snip]
Dear Debian users,
How do I calculate the difference in "cost to hard drive wear
and tear from a single spin-up" to the cost of letting it run for a
length of time?
If that didn't make sense, I'll say I set the spindown time on
my laptop's HD to 25 seconds. Generally I'll have one disk spin for
each app that I load the first time, and one or two other spins for
an "ls" or such in a new directory.
Would I just be better off having it spin a lot when I am
plugged in?
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