Hey. What do you think about this? I have an ide disk I use to solely manage backups. At 11:15pm I mount the partitions, run rsync a few times, tar up the files that have been updated, then umount the partitions. The process takes only a short time. At the end of the process I issue these commands:
/sbin/hdparm -S 1 /dev/hda /sbin/hdparm -Y /dev/hda which put the drive into standby mode and tell it to spin-down. (I take the drive out of standby at the beginning of the process.) My question is... do you think this is a good idea? it saves some electricity, which is good. the disk spends most of its time spun-down and with most of its electronics powered down. My primary rationale for doing this is I think "off" must be less stressful than "on". What I'm worried about is: does the stress of powering the disk up and down and spinning the disk up and down even once a day cause more stress than would just letting it spin all the time? Am I causing more wear and tear than I'm saving? Or, am I worrying over nothing? Thanks, - Ben _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
