On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 02:49:29PM -0500, Narins, Josh wrote: > How do I calculate the difference in "cost to hard drive wear > and tear from a single spin-up" to the cost of letting it run for a > length of time? If it's a desktop box, don't worry about letting them spin down at all, your speakers probably draw more power than your hard drive. If you *really* want to save power, look at the dpms options in xset to turn your monitor off after a couple minutes. > If that didn't make sense, I'll say I set the spindown time on > my laptop's HD to 25 seconds. Generally I'll have one disk spin for > each app that I load the first time, and one or two other spins for > an "ls" or such in a new directory. > Would I just be better off having it spin a lot when I am > plugged in? Let it spin when you're plugged in, since it's not like you're burning battery right then. -- .''`. Baloo <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> : :' : proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system
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