[mythtv] Preemptive Disk Writes

[Dan Morphis]

On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 22:24:10 -0400 (EDT), Eric M. Reischer
<emr at mercury.ccil.org> wrote:
> Just a thought I had after setting up my mythbox (package is awesome by
> the way).  Since I have a brand new 120 GB disk and I want it to last
> awhile, I set up noflushd to spin down the disk after an hour of
> inactivity.  I've noticed, however, that my programs tend to start

Statistically speaking, your drive is way more likely to fail on spin
up, than in the middle of spinning at full speed. All the drives I've
ever had which failed, the cause was a failure to spin up.

-dan