From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 29 23:10:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from home.se (smtphost3.home.se [195.66.35.199]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 974EA37B401 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 23:10:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from home.se [193.11.248.230] by home.se with Novonyx SMTP Server $Revision: 2.71 $; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 08:09:24 +0100 (ECTD) Message-ID: <3A25FF6F.9A491CFF@home.se> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 08:19:11 +0100 From: Nash X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Hard Drive Sleep Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I'm running FreeBSD 4.0 and I've noticed that the hard drives on my server never seem to 'rest' (sleep or standby). This inevitably wears down the drives, I believe, and wonder if FreeBSD doesn't have some way to reduce this wear and tear? Thanx beforehand, Nash/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message