Interesting link, thank you! I had completely misunderstood the problem.
2014-10-02 19:32 GMT+02:00 Rivendell Steve <[email protected]>: > Hi Alessio, > > See http://idle3-tools.sourceforge.net/ for information about WD greens and > how to disable their power saving features. > > Steve. > > On 2 October 2014 17:24, Alessio Elmi <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Thank you both. >> I used exactly Caviar Green by WD. They were the cheapest and now I >> realise why. >> I was looking for a bottleneck on the line when it's just the disks >> that take a nap when they like. Shame on me! >> I will search if I can change their behaviour. >> >> Alessio >> >> 2014-10-02 17:13 GMT+02:00 Cowboy <[email protected]>: >> > On Thursday 02 October 2014 10:38:50 am Sébastien Leblanc wrote: >> >> Sounds a lot like your disks are spinning down after a while. Verify >> >> that >> >> this is not the case: https://www.google.ca/search?q=sdparm+spindown >> > >> > Western Digital has some inexpensive "green" drives. >> > Spin-down is exactly their claim to fame. >> > I don't know if it can be disabled, I just avoid "green" anything. >> > For the 1 watt per year they might save, just not worth it. >> > >> > -- >> > Cowboy >> > >> > http://cowboy.cwf1.com >> > >> > If only one could get that wonderful feeling of accomplishment without >> > having to accomplish anything. >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Rivendell-dev mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev >> _______________________________________________ >> Rivendell-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
