A-NO-NE Music wrote: >Just curious. >Why do you spin down your drives, which shortens your drive life in great >deal? I never spin down any of my drives, running 24/7, except when my >TiBook travels with me :-)
I have to do this since my enclosure is crammed with HDs. Since I also live under the roof, now when it's hot (30 degrees centigrade or more room temperature) the enclosure tends to overheat (which I can see when the graphics card starts to create noise pixels on my DVI attached TFT monitor). I therefore need to spin down drives I do not need (and some of the drives are only accessed by my backup software, once or twice a day). A solution I have found is to actually unmount connected, unused drives manually and re-mount them before I need to access them. Regards, Christian.
