On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 17:39 +0100, Peder Hedlund wrote:
> Quoting Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@email-addr-hidden-dsl.net>:
>
>
> > "All WD external hard drives will spin down (enter into power saver
> > mode) after 10 minutes of drive inactivity. Once the drive is accessed
> > again, the drive will exit from the power saver mode and spin back up.
>
> If it's designed to spin down it's probably also designed to be able
> to handle that.
> An obvious workaround would be having a cron job doing a 'touch
> TempFile' or something similar on the disk once every 5 minutes or so.
Thank you Peder, that's a good idea, if the spin downs should cause
issues.
Regards,
Ralf
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