[nylug-talk] Slim home server for samba and subversion ( and possibly IMAP)

[Jay Sulzberger]

On Wed, 14 May 2008, Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith at ieee.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 22:03 -0400, Chris Knadle wrote:

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>> Yeah, I happen to like setting auto spin-down after 15 mins
>> using 'hdaparm -S 180 <device>' at bootup for drives that are only used
>> occasionally.  I honestly don't know if it helps drive longevity or not.
>
> Actually, you may _not_ want to do that with 3.5" disc.  You usually
> want to spin it up only _once_ per day, and then spin it down at the end
> of the day.  And you really don't want to use it more than 8 hours, 14
> at the most.  But don't spin it down every 15 minutes, at least not with
> commodity 3.5" disc.

What is the standard survey paper on this?

oo--JS.