On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 21:30:19 +0200, Carsten Koch wrote: > That obviously depends on how often you spin them up and down. Yes > I would assume that a disk which is on for 2 hours a day > and off for 22 (so it spins up/down once per day) > lives *a lot* longer than a disk that is on for 24 hours a day. > What do you think? The problem is that you really don't know how often in spins up/down per day. Depending on the parameters it can be 100s of times or never. I disabled spin up/down and stop the complete server. On average I have approximately 2-5 complete power cycles a day, depending on the distribution of recordings. The power down is handled by NVRAM and power up is done by NVRAM, etherwake or by a telefon call to my fritz box. ;-) Emil
