Relax, whichever you choose will be wrong for your specific case (I call this "Jim's principle").
On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 12:36:02 -0700 Ben Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
