From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 30 10:21: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (sub24-23.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D234437B400 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 10:21:00 -0800 (PST) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DE9E518B4; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 10:44:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5D6B18B3; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 10:44:23 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 10:44:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Rick Hamell To: Nash Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Hard Drive Sleep In-Reply-To: <3A25FF6F.9A491CFF@home.se> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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? APM should to that... but it's been my experience with power management that the drive(s) motherboard, etc, don't always come back up, causing worse problems. In these days of 1 million hours Mean Time Before Failure drives as standard... I wouldn't worry about this too terribly much. Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message