On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 11:13:44PM +0200, Damon Jacobsen wrote: ... > > > 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? > > > ... > > In the end I think your idea of powering down the hard drive is a good idea. > I have read that the rated drive life is based on light drive use (being on > only a few hours at a time in a desktop enviroment). The useful life a drive > falls considerably in a dedicated server enviroment with the disk spinning > 24/7.
Thanks very much for relating that tidbit. So, I figure I'll leave my script alone and let all the powering up and down continue. - Ben _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
