Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 22:10:17 +0400 From: Yuri Grebenkin <breath@unix.net> To: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Automatic means for spinning down disks available? Message-ID: <20070408221017.23f060ea.breath@unix.net> In-Reply-To: <46192C1B.4060706@u.washington.edu> References: <46192C1B.4060706@u.washington.edu>
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Just wonder if it's better for an HDD not to spindown at all. Maybe it's safer to spin in peace than to park/launch? What do you think? > Hello again all, > I was wondering if there was an automatic, and possibly timed means to > spin down disks available in either ports or the base system, by chance. > Just trying to cut down on energy use, and increase my disks' lives :). > TIA, > -Garrett
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