Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 10:44:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com> To: Nash <nash@home.se> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Hard Drive Sleep Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011291038070.23051-100000@heorot.1nova.com> In-Reply-To: <3A25FF6F.9A491CFF@home.se>
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> 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
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