On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 12:21:10 +0000 Alexander Best <arun...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> atacontrol(8) says that: > > "You should not set a spindown timeout on a disk with / or syslog > logging on it as the disk will be worn out spinning down and up all > the time." > > this seems to indicate that spinning down a disk has quite an impact. That's mostly likely a hang-over from older disk technologies when the heads touched the surface on spinning down. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
