Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2007 11:26:03 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Automatic means for spinning down disks available? Message-ID: <461933BB.3090700@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070408221017.23f060ea.breath@unix.net> References: <46192C1B.4060706@u.washington.edu> <20070408221017.23f060ea.breath@unix.net>
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Yuri Grebenkin wrote:
> 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
But I thought that disks keep on rotating, even when they're not being
accessed, unless you run {cam,ata}control stop.
That's similar to what Windows / MacOSX do at least.
-Garrett
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