Re: Hard Drive Noise

On Nov 20, 2007 12:09 AM, Billy Crook [email protected] wrote:

For those of you that want to save the life of your drives, or save electricity you might even schedule (via crontab) all of your hard drives to go to standby an hour after you go to work. This might raise the question of how you get them spinning again. Don't worry about that, the first time you go to access the disk after sleeping or suspending it, linux will wake it right up for you, and you'll only have to wait a couple seconds.

I recall hearing that standby mode does not lengthen the MTBF for hard drives; in fact it shortened it due to increased stress of changing mode in comparison to just staying spun up all the time. Is that no longer true, if it ever was?