From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 8 18:17:56 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF77216A402 for ; Sun, 8 Apr 2007 18:17:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from breath@unix.net) Received: from mtsnet.ru (mts3.mtsnet.ru [213.87.0.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CCBB13C457 for ; Sun, 8 Apr 2007 18:17:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from breath@unix.net) Received: from [84.17.224.22] (HELO breathpoint.home) by mtsnet.ru (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.1) with SMTP id 537561; Sun, 08 Apr 2007 22:17:51 +0400 Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 22:10:17 +0400 From: Yuri Grebenkin To: Garrett Cooper Message-Id: <20070408221017.23f060ea.breath@unix.net> In-Reply-To: <46192C1B.4060706@u.washington.edu> References: <46192C1B.4060706@u.washington.edu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.0.0 (GTK+ 2.6.9; i386-portbld-freebsd6.0) X-Operating-System: FreeBSD Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Automatic means for spinning down disks available? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2007 18:17:56 -0000 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