On Wednesday 22 June 2011 09:14:36 Gregory Hosler wrote: > The "green" ones will auto-spin > down when not in use. Saves energy, more importantly, runs a heck of a lot > cooler overall. negative is that there can be a delay as it powers up > after being away from the drive for a period of time. The cooler running > temp more that justifies that for me. However, your priorities might be > different from mine. :-) Depending on your usecase, you may end up spinning them up/down every fifteen minutes, which can be bad for the drive, and is also very annoying for the user. However, a simple touching of some file by the cron job (every minute) fixes this, and the drive is always up and running. I have two of those 1.5 TB external USB WD green drives, they work 24/7 without issues for two years and counting... ;-) HTH, :-) Marko -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
