Richard Zidlicky writes:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 11:57:17PM +0200, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
> > 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).
>
> so it got better.. well don't forget every powercycle is 1 spinup,
> each time you hit reset may be the equivalent of another one
(depends
> on drive).
>
> Even if I had 10 sart/stops a day guaranteed I wouldn't use the
> automatic sleep when idle but rather spindown explicitly when
> I know I won't use the drive for a really long time or before
> shutting down.
>
> Older ( <8GB ) drives will porbably have much smaller life
expectation
> with frequent spinups.
I would probably have followed a similar policy. However, I do it for
the silence. Admittedly it is not ideal. A 128 Mb flash disk would be
nice ;)
Per
