Re: [clug-support] quiet hard drive

 Doug Mitchell wrote:
>
> One question, why do you want to spin-down your drives?

 two reasons:

1. smaller draw on the UPS
2. in the past 12 yrs I have used, or watched the use of, about 50 IDE drives, I have seen about 5 fail, in all instances they were set for "always spinning" that I can recall.

> Unless this is a laptop to converse energy you might

 not a laptop in this case but power consumption is a  factor when system is on UPS.

> The MTBF given for a hard drive are based on a limited

 I am not arguing your point about MTBFs / spin-up & down  but this is still a debated issue:

<http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/perf/qual/specMTBF-c.html>

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<http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/perf/qual/specLife-c.html>

<http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/perf/qual/specCycles-c.html>

<http://www.pcguide.com/care/care/gen/power_OnOff.htm>

 my guess is they are referring to this article on  Western Digital's site about a 34 yr life span:

<http://support.wdc.com/tips/index.asp?tip=22>

 thnx,

 -baji.

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