Summary: Re: Spin down HDD after disk sync or before power off

[Bruce Cran]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:35:06 +0200
Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> wrote:

> Really?  That would make the system close to unusable, and the disk's
> life expectancy would be reduced to a few months; a disk that performs
> two load / unload cycles per minute on average will need replacing
> after three to six months.  Remember, there was a huge flap a couple
> of years when Ubuntu shipped with a default timeout of 90 seconds,
> which is more than ten times more than what you suggest.

The Ubuntu issue was what I was thinking of - I got that mixed up with
the aggressive power management of the WD EARS drives.

-- 
Bruce Cran