Hard Drive Noise

David Nicol davidnicol at gmail.com
Tue Nov 20 15:23:21 CST 2007


On Nov 20, 2007 12:09 AM, Billy Crook <billycrook at gmail.com> wrote:

>   For those of you that want to save the life of your
> drives, or save electricity you might even schedule (via crontab) all
> of your hard drives to go to standby an hour after you go to work.
> This might raise the question of how you get them spinning again.
> Don't worry about that, the first time you go to access the disk after
> sleeping or suspending it, linux will wake it right up for you, and
> you'll only have to wait a couple seconds.

I recall hearing that standby mode does not lengthen the MTBF for
hard drives; in fact it shortened it due to increased stress of changing
mode in comparison to just staying spun up all the time.  Is that no
longer true, if it ever was?


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