From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: John Robinson <john.robinson@anonymous.org.uk>
Subject: Re: linux disk access when idle
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 03:07:57 +0100
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On 22/08/2009 02:41, berk walker wrote:
> I thought it was just a trait of the animal.  My Linux systems have 
> always done disk access every few seconds, 24/7. From '92 on.

Not necessarily. I don't know what they did to achieve it, but Netgear's 
ReadyNAS devices can be configured to park the drives when they're left 
alone, it works (unless you're using SqueezeCenter), and they're 
Linux-based.

Cheers,

John.