Hi Andrew,
> What kind of spin-up times do you think are normal for a modern
> hard-drive then?
Second or two? Purely from very limited experience. Have just timed
this very old 20GB PATA drive.
$ foo() { date +%S.%N; }
$ sudo true; foo; sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb >$N; foo
31.142709016
35.482519853
$ e 35.482519853 - 31.142709016
4.339810837
$
So that's quite a bit slower.
There are a few SMART stats with spin in their name, including apparent
spin up time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.#Known_ATA_S.M.A.R.T._attributes
Cheers,
Ralph.
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