[LAU] External USB 2 HD for real-time recording

[Peder Hedlund]

Quoting Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-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.

- Peder