[mythtv-users] Wake up disks on events

[mythtv at blandford.net]

John and Holly Klug wrote:
> Ma Begaj wrote:
>> 2008/9/8 Adam Stylinski <kungfujesus06 at gmail.com>:
>>   
>>> maybe it's just me but spinning my disks down seems to kill them faster.
>>>     
>> probably, but I do not expect from a disk to live ten years. I am
>> pretty happy with approximately 4 years, because I usually change them
>> for 3x bigger and 3x cheaper new disks :)
>>
>>   
> I would like to spin down my drives just to save some power, but 
> myth/mysql seems to be writing to the database once per second.  Seems 
> like a complete waste.

Yeah, that is a problem.

The only time it makes sense to do this is if your database and your 
recordings are on different drives.

Michael