Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing Hard disk Wear?

2005-05-07 Thread Kent Borg
On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 12:38:44PM +0100, Ognjen Bezanov wrote: (4 x40 GB software RAID 5, 1x4GB root and 1x60GB file storage). [...] I am worrying about the state of the drives as they are constantly running. So I want to find out how to minimise drive wear but this issue seems rather

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing Hard disk Wear?

2005-05-07 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sat, 07 May 2005 12:38:44 +0100 Ognjen Bezanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some people say that Setting the Hard disks to power down will extend their life, while others say that keeping the drives running constantly will extend their life (on the pretext that spin-up/downs wear the HD more

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing Hard disk Wear?

2005-05-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 7 May 2005 11:25:15 -0400, Kent Borg wrote: 1. Temperature. Keep you disks cool and they will last longer, let them get hot and they will die much sooner. 2. You can use sotware raid 1 for everything, even boot disks and swap. Consider doing more raid to survive any of