Hi there,
On Thu, 5 Mar 2020, 0...@caiway.net wrote:
> -dsr- wrote:
>
> There used to be (still?) a set of Western Digital drives that
> would go into a hard sleep and park their heads repeatedly. This
> tended to cause a shortened lifespan as well as terrible
> performance.
>
with cron:
# prevent disks from sleeping, every minute:
* * * * * /bin/touch /dev/sda &>/
No, I don't think so. The discs in question I believe by default
sleep after eight seconds and play particularly badly with Linux.
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73,
Ged.
