Nazz;526694 Wrote: > I am wondering if it actually does any good to the HD life and power > consumption spinning-down drives if they are being woken up every 3 > minutes when a new song is played. I would assume HD firmware to be > optimized for power consumption when in idle.
Why would you set the HD to spin up and down every 3 minutes? When you are playing songs, your HD would not spin down at all. HD spin down time is defined by user in most operating systems. It is the duration that if there is no disk access at all that the disk will spin down. Most people would set this time between 15min to a couple of hours to make more sense. Say for example, if you set the time to 30min, the HD only spins down if there was no activity in the past 30 minutes. If you are using your computer or playing songs with your squeezebox, the HD will not spin down at all. However, when you stopped using your computer, or stopped squeezebox, your server will spin the HD down after 30min. It could be a huge energy save as for a lot of people they will only listen to music a couple of hours a day. In this scenario, your HD will only be powered up and down a couple of times a day and HD life would not be affected. On the other hand, there could be some spin down issues with notebook drives used in a server (which is a different problem). Notebook drives have firmware designed to spin down during short inactivity to save more power. In a server environment, depends on the OS, this could cause repeated load and unload cycle causing excessive wear. -- Honva ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Honva's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14948 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75902 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
