On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 18:12 +0100, Francois Barre wrote: > Is it possible to make the drives turn slower ? To make the heads move slower ? > That would be my dream. No more heat, a 10mA consumption, no more noise... It is not possible to make the disk platters spin slower, since the speed of the platters is what makes sure the heads don't touch the platters. It is possible to slow down head movement, either by hdparm or you can set it permanently (until you change it again) with tools often provided by the manufacturer. -HK - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
