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Date:      Sun, 8 Apr 2007 22:10:17 +0400
From:      Yuri Grebenkin <breath@unix.net>
To:        Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Automatic means for spinning down disks available?
Message-ID:  <20070408221017.23f060ea.breath@unix.net>
In-Reply-To: <46192C1B.4060706@u.washington.edu>
References:  <46192C1B.4060706@u.washington.edu>

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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



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