meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> Is it advisable to try to longen the active time before the disk
> goes idle to prolong the lifetime ?
> Is it possible to do this with hdparm?
I have three external USB disks. Two of them are going to sleep
after a few minutes, one is always spinning.
All of them ig
On Tuesday 02 Feb 2016 09:38:33 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> The harddisk in question is this little external
> USB hd, which is used for data storage only.
> It is by far no server disk or anything else
> high-end-24/7-thingy... ;)
>
> Best regards,
> Meino
I was running a 350GB WD Passport plu
On 02/02/2016 12:38 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> Hi @all,
>
> thanks for the infos so far.
>
> Just to correct me if I got it wrong expressed
> (sorry, I am no native english speaker...)
>
> The harddisk in question is this little external
> USB hd, which is used for data storage only.
> It
Dale [16-02-02 09:28]:
> meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > for storing not so often used data I bought a 2.5" external USB
> > harddisk.
> >
> > This little beast has a very small timespan before it goes idle
> > and (from the time needed to be woken up) it seems, it parks its
> > heads
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> Hi,
>
> for storing not so often used data I bought a 2.5" external USB
> harddisk.
>
> This little beast has a very small timespan before it goes idle
> and (from the time needed to be woken up) it seems, it parks its
> heads then.
>
> The main usage of the disk to be
Hi,
Am Dienstag, 2. Februar 2016, 07:29:16 CET schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de:
> [...]
> Is it advisable to try to longen the active time before the disk
> goes idle to prolong the lifetime ?
honestly I don't know what is worse - running the HDD permanently or parking
the heads too often. I'm not a
Hi,
for storing not so often used data I bought a 2.5" external USB
harddisk.
This little beast has a very small timespan before it goes idle
and (from the time needed to be woken up) it seems, it parks its
heads then.
The main usage of the disk to be connected to my PC from time to
time, copy
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