Re: Hard drive spindown settings

: Hard drive spindown settings Resent-Date: 17 Jul 1998 15:00:39 - Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; I was looking at the hdparm package yesterday... a while back I set my stystem up to issue hdparm -S 240 /dev/hda at boot...but I am

Re: Hard drive spindown settings

If you are spinning the drive down to extend the useful life of the drive, you are doing just the opposite. As long as the drive has adequate cooling (i.e., doesn't burn you when you touch it), it will stay alive much longer if you leave it powered up and spinning 24/7. The reason is that the

Hard drive spindown settings

I was looking at the hdparm package yesterday... a while back I set my stystem up to issue hdparm -S 240 /dev/hda at boot...but I am realizing that my drive never spins down. in fact it seems liek every few seconds I hear it access... I was wondering... is this a side effect of update running? (I