On Nov 30 2004, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > This is likely to shorten the life of your old HD enough that the noise > won't be an issue for too long. > > Spin-up and spin-down cycles on old equipment is *never* a good idea.
Yes, I know about this issue. I think that getting some more RAM would make this issue go away (perhaps with truly high commit intervals, like, say, one hour -- I would have to experiment to see if I can take such risks). Nice that you pointed out about the start/stop cycles, though. Thanks, Rogério Brito. -- Learn to quote e-mails decently at: http://pub.tsn.dk/how-to-quote.php http://learn.to/quote http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/toppost.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
