Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:58:31 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Summary: Re: Spin down HDD after disk sync or before power off Message-ID: <20101021145831.7421d4fc@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20101021122110.GA65490@freebsd.org> References: <201009161742.24228.tijl@coosemans.org> <201009161619.o8GGJAmv035378@lurza.secnetix.de> <20101018155944.GA12425@freebsd.org> <868w1r92rf.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20101021122110.GA65490@freebsd.org>
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On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 12:21:10 +0000 Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org> wrote: > atacontrol(8) says that: > > "You should not set a spindown timeout on a disk with / or syslog > logging on it as the disk will be worn out spinning down and up all > the time." > > this seems to indicate that spinning down a disk has quite an impact. That's mostly likely a hang-over from older disk technologies when the heads touched the surface on spinning down.
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