On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > BTW what would be considered a sane timeout for standby? Does it harm the
> > disk
> > if I set it to the minimum of 5 seconds and it gets powered down and back up
> > all the time?
>
> It may harm the disk, but it sure doesn't save any power. I'd try half a
> minute or a minute as a minimum.
Note that if a disk dies, it's usually while spinning up...
Reducing the speed of your CD-ROM helps as well. I know a friend who played
MP3s from CD on his notebook. Everytime he started playing a new song his
zillion-speed CD-ROM player had to spin up to lightspeed, consuming lots of
power. Reducing the speed to single-speed helped a lot.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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