Matthias Fechner wrote:
Hi,
i will enable the power saving of my harddisk. I have a VDR system with 2xFF card and 4 Harddisks.
Now i'm not sure, if this is a good idea and hwoto do it.
I have enable this powersaving, has it any disadvantage to the livetime of the harddisk?
If you use desktop harddrives it is not recommended to cycle them too often.
Should i enable the powersaving or better the spin down in the BIOS or can i do it on my linux system?
You can enable it with hdparm.
What is the behaviour of VDR if a recording is starting and the HDD is not running? Will VDR send a startsignal to the harddisk early enough?
Sorry, no idea about that cause my recording hdd is also my system hdd which I never suspend (as you need to do many things to teach linux not to write to hdd every few minutes). I only "suspend" my other hdds in my vdr server (as these are hdds for mp3s, documents and so on which are not needed most time of the day).
Greetings, Egalus