On Mon, 5 Nov 2007 18:10:27 -0400 Michel Filipe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is really that the Disk Power Management (hdparm -B 1 -S 12 /dev/sda) is > prejudicial to HardDisk? With the history of Ubuntu is decrease the life of > disks, I got curious. > > I'm use the Gentoo. > > Bye! > Hi! Using aggressive APM this way can shorten your disk life, so you only want to use these settings when you are in a low power situation. A lot of distros will execute hdparm when you unplug your cable, and you'll have to check the settings for your distro to confirm this. You may want to play with the settings to help you decide what is best for you. Read the man page on hdparm for more details, but essentially hdparm -B 1 tells the drive to go into the most aggressive APM mode it has. You can use a value between 1-255, where 255 is completely off. The -S parameter tells the drive to spindown after 1 minute of inactivity (it's multiples of 5 seconds). _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.lesswatts.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
