Re: power saving - A good idea
The downside is accessing the drive for the first time after that
5minutes. I was told, and this could be completely false, that scsi
drives are designed to basically run constantly, while ide drives not. I
heard this accounts for a lot of the price difference. Does anyone know
if this has any truth, or if this is completly B.S.?
-Aaron Solochek
leko@cmu.edu
On Fri, 19 May 2000, Chris Mason wrote:
> I lost a hard drive on my firewall machine recently so I looked for ways to
> conserve the drive. I enabled power saving(?) in the BIOS so that the IDE
> spins down after 5 mins of inactivity. As it is the only machine on a lot of
> the time, the HD is rarely used anyway.
> Any downside to this, will it cause problesm? Three days in and the machine
> seems fine.
>
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