Greg Erskine wrote: > I just realised I am probably deaf. I'm sitting in a sea of 4 USB drives > and can't hear them. 3 are within arm's reach and 1 a metre away. It's a > bit unusual for me to have more than 1 USB drive powered up at once. I > can hear a fan in my NUC. :) > > Or.... I think my small USB drives spin down automatically. They are > cold and I can't feel any spinning vibration. > > And I don't have any USB drives or fans in my listening room.
USB drives are typically `green` drives with onboard logic that will spin down and park(!) the drive if it hasn't been used for ~7 seconds. These type of drives are horrible for running a linux based OS as they will kill themselves after about 2 years use because the OS usually only writes new log entries every ~15 seconds. You can check the so-called `load_cycle_count` with smartctl (smartmontools) to verify how close your drive is to permanent failure. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gordonb3's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=71050 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114879 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
