[mythtv-users] External storage spin up time - mythfrontend sometimes times out

[Mike Perkins]

On 25/04/16 21:04, Simon Hobson wrote:
> Dave Day <david.scott.day at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> My question is this:  Do modern USB drives spin up quickly enough
>> so I won't have to worry about it, or do I need to tell these drives
>> not to spin down (if that is possible)?
>
> I'd be surprised if interface type had much effect - it's the speed of the drive itself that's going to restrict spin-up times. Can the timeouts be adjusted, that would probably be a better way round the problem.
>
Modern drives have quite a bit of built in cache - more so if they are "hybrid" drives. It maybe a 
more modern drive can service some requests while the drive spins up. Spun down != powered off.

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Mike Perkins