Re: Subject: Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD
On Thu 05 Mar 2020 at 18:01:57 (+0000), G.W. Haywood wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Mar 2020, 007@caiway.net wrote:
> > > -dsr- wrote:
> > >
> > > There used to be (still?) a set of Western Digital drives that
> > > would go into a hard sleep and park their heads repeatedly. This
> > > tended to cause a shortened lifespan as well as terrible
> > > performance.
> > > with cron:
> > # prevent disks from sleeping, every minute:
> > * * * * * /bin/touch /dev/sda &>/
>
> No, I don't think so. The discs in question I believe by default
> sleep after eight seconds and play particularly badly with Linux.
Is that what's discussed in man hdparm under option -J?
Cheers,
David.
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