<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Steve Peters - Priority Electronics <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steve@priorityelectronics.com">steve@priorityelectronics.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote">
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2">Hello,</font>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2">I have 6 hard drives for my mythbox. It does a lot more than just myth, so I do need them all. I have 3 of them internal, and 3 of them in usb enclosures.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">My questions is: Will linux spindown all the drives when they're idle, thus saving power, and hopefully saving the lifespan of the drives? </font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">Also, will a drive in a usb enclosure last any shorter or longer than an internal drive? It's definetly warmer in the mythbox because the drives are all next to each other.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">-Thanks</font>
<br><font color="#888888"><font face="Arial" size="2">-Steve</font>
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</blockquote><div><br>Use hdparm to put drives to sleep, check status ext. <br><br>ie hdparm --help should help :)<br><br>Mitchell<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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