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

[Saul]

On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 23:11:44 +0100
Mike Perkins <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk> wrote:

> >
> > OS should be in charge of spindowns, not HDD firmware, I used
> > idle3ctl to disable spindowns on my WD Red drives.
> >
> > http://idle3-tools.sourceforge.net/
> >  
> Your WD Reds power down!?!! I have never had that happen. I wouldn't
> want to, since they are NAS-certified drives and are expected to be
> available 24/7.

Actually if I think of it ... it was the load cycle count that went up.
And the RAID was lazy to react after long time no access. After running
idle3ctl on them the load cycle count stopped and laziness is gone. So
does a load cycle involve spindown?

-- 
Cheers, Saul