[mythtv-users] Hard-drive spindown when idle?

Phill Edwards philledwards at gmail.com
Thu Jul 21 22:46:52 UTC 2011


> This is a bit of a religious issue. Supposedly, Google did a big study
> that showed that spinning idle drives down did not increase lifetime of
> the drives. But other reasons for doing so might include power and heat.
> Spinning down drives, assuming that they do stay spun down for a long
> time and are not repeatedly spinning up and down, uses less power and
> generates less heat. That is a consideration.

And less noise too which may be important in your living room.
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