Haha! I like your answer.
- Sebastian
On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, James Washer wrote:
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
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