haha. :) I think I already subscribe to that one. Thanks for the succinct phraseology. to top it off, it sounds like you may subscribe to Big Lebowskism? (thank goodness The Dude is taking it easy! helps me relax...)
- Ben On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 12:52:50PM -0700, 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > RLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug > > _______________________________________________ > RLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
