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Re: Drive Spin Down?


  • Subject: Re: Drive Spin Down?
  • From: "K. C. Li" <li@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 22:53:41 +0100 (BST)

On Mon, 23 May 2005, Mark McCall wrote:

> I noticed in the PDF for the Bufalo Terastation I downloaded mentioned
it
> spins down its drives after a period of inactivity.

It is a user configurable option.

> In the past I never enabled this on my media server as I imagined
keping
> them running constantly would be less stressful than starting and
stoping
> them and the associated expansion/contraction of the componants.

That depends on how stable the ambient temperature is and how often the
drives are spun up from rest. In a typical server environment with regular
disk accesses, spinning drives down is probably not desriable. The spin-up
would also add to the disk access time.

Regards,

Kwong Li
li@xxxxxxx
Laser Business Systems Ltd.
http://www.laser.com
http://www.cbus-shop.com




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