"Sleep time" improves the reliability of all hard drives in use, including those rated for "extended duty".
Paul Goyette Juniper Networks Customer Service JTAC Senior Escalation Engineer PGP Key ID 0x53BA7731 Fingerprint: FA29 0E3B 35AF E8AE 6651 0786 F758 55DE 53BA 7731 > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Daniel Roesen > Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 9:09 AM > To: juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net > Subject: Re: [j-nsp] atastandbyarmset & smartd > Importance: High > > On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 05:56:03AM -0800, Paul Goyette wrote: > > Adaptive Standby periodically puts the hard drive to "sleep" for > > several minutes, buffering I/O activity in the kernel. Without > > this sleep time, the hard drive (and therefore the entire Routing > > Engine) could fail prematurely. > > And this is still applicable to new hardware where JNPR hopefully > deploys 24/7 rated disks? Or only to older REs equipped with > "desktop PC usage" rated drives? > > Best regards, > Daniel > > -- > CLUE-RIPE -- Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PGP: 0xA85C8AA0 > _______________________________________________ > juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp > _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
