Hello Rainer, * Rainer Zocholl <UseNet-Posting-Nospam-74308-@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [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
