[mythtv] file checks in HandleQueryRecordings

[Tony Lill]

"Michael T. Dean" <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> writes:

> On 11/22/2006 01:48 PM, Tony Lill wrote:
>
> Why do you spin down hard drives in a non-laptop system, anyway?  The 
> following is an excerpt from the FAQ for the laptop-mode-tools ( 
> http://www.samwel.tk/laptop_mode/tools/faq.html )
>
> Spinning Down May Kill Hard Drives
>
> Desktop hard drives are usually rated for only 40,000-50,000 spinups, 
> and one spinup every 10 minutes will kill your 40,000-spinup HD in 277 
> days. So this is NOT recommended for server use, unless you increase the 
> spinup interval dramatically, to say once every hour or two. Laptop hard 
> drives are usually rated for around 300,000 spinups, so those will last 
> about 2083 days or 6 years if you have them powered on 24-7.

True, spinning them up every 10 minutes is stupid, but if myth wasn't
hitting them for no good reason, they  could stay spun down
for hours. I've got 5 disks with nothing but myth programs on them,
plus a bunch shared with the O/S, so if programs are distributed
randomly, I'd probably only touch each of them once or twice a
day. That's a lot of heat and electricity.

> Mike
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