[mythtv-users] Wake up disks on events

[John and Holly Klug]

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.