The downside is accessing the drive for the first time after that 5minutes. I was told, and this could be completely false, that scsi drives are designed to basically run constantly, while ide drives not. I heard this accounts for a lot of the price difference. Does anyone know if this has any truth, or if this is completly B.S.?
-Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 19 May 2000, Chris Mason wrote: > I lost a hard drive on my firewall machine recently so I looked for ways to > conserve the drive. I enabled power saving(?) in the BIOS so that the IDE > spins down after 5 mins of inactivity. As it is the only machine on a lot of > the time, the HD is rarely used anyway. > Any downside to this, will it cause problesm? Three days in and the machine > seems fine. > > Chris Mason > Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies > Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 > USA Fax (561) 382-7771 > Take a virtual tour of the island > http://net.ai/ The Anguilla Guide > Find out more about NetConcepts > www.netconcepts.ai > bwz*mq > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
