Hi there, On Thu, 5 Mar 2020, 007@caiway.net wrote:
> -dsr- wrote: > > There used to be (still?) a set of Western Digital drives that> would go into a hard sleep and park their heads repeatedly. This > tended to cause a shortened lifespan as well as terrible> performance.> with cron:# prevent disks from sleeping, every minute: * * * * * /bin/touch /dev/sda &>/
No, I don't think so. The discs in question I believe by default sleep after eight seconds and play particularly badly with Linux. -- 73, Ged.