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From: Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Howto make reiser-3.6 a bit more standby friendly?
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 21:10:03 +0200
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Hi Christian,

> Are you sure? Common "knowledge" (empiric and anecdotal evidence) says th=
at a
> spin-up/spin-down cycle costs significantly more "lifetime" than running =
the
> drive for the same amount of time. You really have to have extremely few
> spin-ups for this to have any positive effect, IMHO.

Never really thought about that but the machine acts as server only
during the day but also runs at night - at that time nothing at all is
done with the box so I thought it would be better to send the drive to
sleep overnight.

Thanks for this thought - I'll adjust the settings via a cron-daemon
so that the drive does not have to do unesscesary spin-ups during use.

lg Clemens