Richard Zidlicky wrote:
> uhmm, I assume you set the drive asleep using some of the sleep
> commands. Don't do this! Life expectancy of drives is measured
> in spinup cycles, not hours of idle operation. Modern drives will have
> much better spinup behaviour than older ones but that doesn't
> change much.
IBM designs their desktop drives to withstand at least 40000
start/stop cycles. This is 11 years with 10 start/stops every day. In
fact they have to be spun down at least once a day or you get problems
with the bearing (in opposite to the server series which shouldn't be
spun down more often than about once a week).
Marcel
