Hello Rainer,
* Rainer Zocholl UseNet-Posting-Nospam-74308-@zocki.toppoint.de [23-10-05 23:39]:
What CPU+VGA do you use? Have you meassured the power consumption?
the point here is, that i dont want to save electrical power, more to increase the livetime of my harddisks. All cheap harddrives are build to run 8 hours and 5 days a week and not more. If you run it 24 hours a day, the lifetime is decreasing significantly (i think instead of 100 hours you only have 20 hours).
I have enable this powersaving, has it any disadvantage to the livetime of the harddisk?
No. Not if you don't spin down it every 2sec for 1sec 365*24h
ah ok, that is fine to hear.
Have a look at the "noflushd" package. It will spindown all /dev/hd you like to spin down.
thx, i installed it now, with hdparm it seems that i have some problems. If i send the sleep command with hdparm it is going to sleep but not automatically if i set the timeout with hdparm.
Or replace the 4 small disks with one big! If one disk requires 10W and run 7*24h it will generate costs about (currently) 10..15 Euro (in Germany). 3 disks 45 oy 200GB Disk 90 oy: in less than 2 years the disk was paid by your energy company...
:) i have 4x160GB running on my system *g*
Bye Matthias